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...MILAN RAI Author of Regime Unchanged: Why the War on Iraq Changed Nothing...
...played with intoxicating seductiveness by Tabu-but more often they depict a complex and suffocating code of behavior condemning women to second-class status or worse. Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali, A Passion Play, based on the Rabindranath Tagore story, tells of a young Calcutta widow (Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai) living in the lavish prison of her in-laws' home. The very beauty of the sets and costumes confines our heroine, traps her in their heavy luxury; the whispered commands and concerns of her keepers clang like a judge's death sentence. Ghosh may be a little in love with...
...Channels, One Owner TV regulation got a fuzzy reception last week as Italy's Senate waved through its media bill, which would roll back rules requiring Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to give up one of his three terrestrial channels. Lucia Annunziata, president of state-owned broadcaster RAI, has threatened to resign if the bill - which still needs lower house approval - becomes law. Berlusconi's remote control worked better than George W. Bush's last week. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to reverse a regulatory ruling allowing TV networks to reach up to 45% of U.S. audiences. Reverting...
...house." The Prime Minister is also the country's leading publisher, advertiser and a major player in the financial and insurance sectors. His three Mediaset channels account for more than 90% of the national commercial TV market, and he exerts a powerful sway over state broadcaster RAI. Last April he publicly called for the sacking of three left-leaning talk-show hosts - and they were duly fired. "Italy risks sliding into a regime without realizing it," warns opposition leader Francesco Rutelli. Despite the criticisms, Berlusconi has become the Prime Minister with the tightest grip on power in postwar Italian history...
...When Boonma left his native Chiang Rai province on a bicycle in 1956, he was a 25-year-old with a new medical degree and a broken heart. A few weeks later he found himself in Thailand's wild west, and quickly realized his woes were nothing compared with the hardscrabble existence of the Karen, Mon and other tribes. So he began tramping from village to village, dispensing medicine and medical advice...