Word: rebirth
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...That cosmopolitan history has been maintained in the house's present rebirth as Paradise Road Tintagel Colombo, www.tintagelcolombo.com - a luxury hotel and restaurant opened in 2007 by Colombo designer and homeware retailer Udayshanth Fernando. "I'm a very close friend of Sunethra Bandaranaike," says Fernando, referring to the elder daughter, who had planned to sell off the furniture and rent the house to a foreign embassy. "I said: 'Why don't you rent it to me?' She spoke to her brother and sister and there we went...
Many of his more than 50 films depicted the rebirth of Italy in the wake of World War II, a theme that director Dino Risi explored with nuance, carefully balancing tragedy and humor. With his breakout film, 1962's Il Sorpasso, about the unlikely friendship between a law student and a gregarious con artist, Risi became one of Italy's most accomplished directors, earning two Oscar nominations for 1974's Profumo di Donna, the tale of a blind war veteran able to distinguish women by their perfume. It was remade in 1992 as Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino...
...Baghdad and the United Kingdom, Harvard will be hosting Contemporary Iraqi Film, featuring the first American screenings of several award-winning Iraqi short pieces and feature-length films. The festival, which will run April 17-19 at the Center for Government and International Studies, seeks to illustrate the rebirth of the Iraqi film industry, motivated by political issues not often evident to mass audiences. In addition to the movie screenings, the event will feature a traditional Iraqi musical performance and discussion about the modern-day issues raised by the films.Hassan M.H. Al-Damluji, a British citizen of Iraqi descent...
...Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies. At a Harare press conference on Tuesday, Tsvangirai declared: "After Saturday, March 29, Zimbabwe will never be the same again. The votes cast on Saturday were for change and a new beginning." Mugabe's exit, whenever it comes, would cue the rebirth of a nation...
...episode inspired McCain's rebirth as a reformer concerned above all with appearance. He successfully worked to outlaw unregulated, six-figure "soft-money" donations to political parties. That was followed by crusades against lobbying access and an extensive corruption investigation against the Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff...