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...happening. The censors had no trouble with I Not Stupid; the Acting Minister of Information even praised it. "The censorship issue is basically a non-issue now," says Khoo, whose short film Pain was banned by the government way back in 1994. "The board of censors are concerned with racial harmony and religion. Other than that, you're pretty much okay." Neo concurs. "I think that our government is quite open," he insists. "They want people to speak out. They want constructive criticism...
...Canadian firm is only one of more than a dozen multinationals that have taken advantage of the treaty's broad provisions. The LOEWEN GROUP, a Canadian funeral conglomerate, wants the U.S. government to pay $725 million in damages because a Mississippi jury harbored what Loewen claims were "anti-Canadian, racial and class biases" when it found the company guilty of contract fraud. METALCLAD, a California firm that was prevented from opening a toxic-waste plant in Mexico, won $15.6 million from that country. UPS is seeking $160 million from Canada because its public postal service competes "unfairly" against the Atlanta...
...Gilmour underlines in this essentially sympathetic portrait, Kipling had a darker side. Subsequent generations have found many of his political, racial and sexual attitudes cynically distasteful. He was a world champion hater who found it impossible to forgive and engaged in numerous ferocious vendettas, not least against liberals. His provocative language offended many, even in his own lifetime, and he was a stranger to compromise. "Politics as 'the art of the possible' was a notion Kipling was never able to assimilate," writes Gilmour with vast understatement...
...KING'S CASTLE In November, Rodale will publish "The Content of My Character" by Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. According to the author's publisher, Yolanda revisits her father's dream of racial equality, "in the context of her own life as a modern black woman." Ten city tour...
...couldn’t ignore the fact that the events of racial profiling and discrimination are repeating themselves today,” Hoshino said...