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...mission, resulting in their discontinuation,” the report says. “To the RI [Radcliffe Institute], the RA’s activities are merely budget line items, to fund or not fund according to RI priorities, and with limited input from or discussion with the RA...
...they are hardly virtuous." In the tragicomic Pupendo, which has yet to be released internationally, Hrebejk sets out to excavate the shameless opportunism and self-censorship of Prague in the waning days of communism. Named after a popular children's game, Pupendo has two protagonists. Bedrich Mára, a well-known Czech sculptor expelled from the Prague art academy for political reasons, is a staunch anticommunist who boycotts elections, and a drunk who supplements his income through insurance fraud. Míla Brecka, on the other hand, is a school principal who clearly profits from his party membership...
...hails Hrebejk's ability to speak with "originality, imagination and humor about the dilemma of people trying to survive and have a decent life in a small country dominated repeatedly through centuries by powerful neighbors." Hrebejk's gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes to human butts with ears, suddenly a hot commodity. Many of Hrebejk's characters are ambivalent - capable of great heroism and craven cowardice, all while displaying an uncanny knack for survival. In Divided We Fall, which...
...Ministry of Religious Endowments, was a priceless collection of handwritten Korans (some said to be over 1,000 years old), religious manuscripts and calligraphy. "People used to come to Baghdad from all over the world--even from al-Azhar--to read these works," says National Library director Ra'ad al-Bandar. "For religious scholars across the Muslim world, this is a time of mourning...
...GRAND HOTEL DE L'OPERA This beloved city landmark has a Michelin one-star restaurant: Les Jardins de l'Opéra (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 23 07 76), where the chef is aptly named Dominique Toulousy. There's also the more relaxed atmosphere of Grand Café de l'Opéra (tel. +33 (0) 5 61 21 37 03), an after-theater institution decorated with decades of snapshots of stage and film stars...