Word: recentering
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...recent years, Toronto has emerged as the launchpad of choice for producers with an eye on Oscar gold - There Will Be Blood and Juno in 2007, Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler in 2008 - and Precious now has the buzz of a sure-fire Oscar nominee, particularly given the Academy's decision this year to expand the Best Picture slate to 10 titles. The rollout of Precious seems to be following the familiar playbook: gaining momentum at three key festivals (Sundance, Cannes and Toronto) and looking to convert critical support into public intrigue and attendance when the movie hits theaters...
...Census approaches, state governments will be looking to redraw congressional district lines to reflect the recent populations of the past 10 years. But even adjusting for these population shifts, the size of each congressional district will still be highly variable, with both Montana’s population of 958,000 people and Wyoming’s 523,000 people each represented by one member in the House. A federal court challenge set to be filed in Mississippi on Thursday alleges that the 400,000-person disparity disenfranchises people living in certain states. They call for the House to increase...
...recent weeks, public attention in India over what is perceived to be the growing threat lurking north of the border has reached feverish levels . Tensions along the Himalayan frontier with China have spiked noticeably since a round of Sino-Indian talks over long-standing territorial disputes this summer ended in failure. In their wake, the frenetic Indian press have chronicled reports of nighttime boundary incursions and troop buildups, even while officials in both governments have downplayed such confrontations. Elements in the Indian media point almost daily to various signs of a Beijing plot to contain its neighbor's rise...
...China is now India's biggest trade partner). Beijing refuses to acknowledge the de facto border - demarcated by the British empire - and claims almost the entirety of the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh as part of its territory. Indian strategic analysts believe Beijing's stance has hardened in recent years, perhaps as a consequence of its increasing economic and military edge over India as well as growing Chinese influence in smaller South Asian countries like Nepal and Bangladesh. Comments made last month by India's outgoing navy chief that the country could not hope to match China's hard...
...part of its backyard without investing serious resources in its navy - much more goes to an army and air force that are perched by the land boundaries with the old enemy of Pakistan. And that gap between India's maritime hubris and real power has been exposed in recent times by China, which is buoyed by a sense of historical revival - dating back to the days when the eunuch admiral Zheng He sailed his medieval trade fleets to India and Africa, bringing back, among other things, a giraffe...