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Most of the Kazakhstan shots were actually filmed in Romania, and their verisimilitude (“cars” pulled by horses, rampant incest, extreme love of ping pong and sunbathing) is slim to none. Ironically enough given the extreme anti-Semitism of his character, Cohen’s “Kazakh” dialogue throughout the film is actually Hebrew...
...view, Pakistan is becoming more liberal, especially on college campuses. All my friends and family who live there paint a picture that is very different from the society I left barely six years ago. Music on campus is a huge part of the social scene in Karachi, dating is rampant, the arts and culture are vibrant, and Western influences and the free press are spreading. Most middle- and upper-class urban residents, although they may not support the Bush Administration's policies (who does?), are not fanatic in their beliefs and would never cast their votes for conservatives...
Still, many doctors, like Binckley's, fail to spot the potentially fatal problem in an older person because they're not looking for it. And in a country where obesity seems to be running rampant, a featherweight figure is often prized. "A doctor may see a slender patient and say, 'Here's one without that problem,'" explains Andres Pumariega, a psychiatrist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. "It's become a silent epidemic...
...Such a conclusion certainly jibes with the facts on the ground: Iraq has become a charnel house with a current average of around 100 Iraqis killed every day in rampant sectarian bloodletting, while the U.S. casualty count continues to climb at a steady clip - October 2006 is currently on track to be the third-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the invasion of Iraq. The U.S. has long recognized that the insurgency can't be eliminated by military means; instead it hoped that it could be defanged by a national reconciliation process pursued by the elected government, which would coax...
...Caracas, the capital, have to make do with a poorly constructed shack on a muddy hillside overlooking the city. For others, not even that much is guaranteed. In the dense slums that blanket many hills surrounding Caracas, ramshackle homes are crammed on top of one another, and crime is rampant on the narrow, garbage-strewn streets and stairways. In many places they are vulnerable to collapse in the mudslides often triggered by frequent downpours. Some lack sufficient electricity supply and telephone access, and their water is delivered by trucks two or three days a week...