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...have so far been able to block the will of a relative who left some $50 million to poor children - the largest private gift in the nation's history. Even Costa Rica, once Central America's hopeful exception, has been rocked in recent years by corruption scandals involving Presidents. (Read: "Costa Rica's President: It's Not Easy Staying Green...
...risk looking as if it's condoning yet another coup in Latin America. Meanwhile, supporters of Zelaya, who is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa after sneaking back into the country in September, have vowed to boycott the vote and may even try to block it. (Read: "A Deal Finally Ends Honduras' Coup Crisis...
...Read: "Nicaragua: Where Every Day is Christmas...
...Piano Teacher, in which Isabelle Huppert plays a sexually repressed woman living in bourgeois Austrian society. She acts out her sadomasochistic fantasies by watching porn, sniffing semen-soaked tissues and cutting her genitals with a razor blade before embarking on an affair with a 17-year-old student. (Read about an American university's battle over porn...
...religious doctrine. Despite moments of unfathomable cruelty, The White Ribbon is a warmer, happier film than Haneke's earlier efforts; the director's black humor is sprinkled throughout rather than painted on thick. There's even a sweet love story between the village schoolteacher and a trusting young nanny. (Read: "Haneke's The White Ribbon Wins Cannes Palme...