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...festivals that take place in Asia. South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival - held in a port once known more for cuttlefish than cinematography - has won a permanent place of prestige in the global film industry's annual circuit of stars and schmoozers. There are plenty more below the radar, however, advancing good causes and, from time to time, good work. Here's a roundup of a half-dozen events that may be short on glamour but have atmosphere to spare. (See the top 10 Cannes film festival movies...
...question Palin never answered is how she plans to make her "difference." A talk show? She demurs (but thanks several "bold and patriotic, fair and balanced" conservative talkers in her book's acknowledgments). A presidential run? "Not on my radar." Her political-action group is offering signed copies of Going Rogue to contributors, though, so politics must at least be on her sonar...
Take the vexing and costly war we are waging against al-Qaeda and its ilk. This is a conflict that was barely on the radar in the 1990s - which is exactly the problem. By most accounts, Osama bin Laden founded his organization sometime between 1988 and 1990. The U.S., in part, helped create this loathsome band itself by funding the mujahedin, who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s and provided much of the training for bin Laden's foot soldiers. But our friendly freedom fighters turned into foes. In 1992 al-Qaeda bombed a hotel in Yemen, hoping...
...veterinary path “wasn’t even on my radar when I [came to Harvard],” says Quimbaya, who is now juggling pre-veterinary classes at the Extension School and graduate studies in the Department of Anthropology. “People came here for medicine, business, or law. The pre-vet community was virtually invisible...
...just very sad to see Britain, so important in Europe, just cutting itself out from the rest and disappearing from the radar," Lellouche told the Guardian, describing the effort as "pathetic" and likening the Tories' Europe hostility to autism. "They have one line, and they just repeat one line. It is a very bizarre sense of autism...