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...unprecedented act of contrition by a former European colonial power, Italy has formally apologized for its past injustices during its 30-year reign in Libya early last century, and agreed to pay $5 billion in reparations to Tripoli. Gaddafi promptly declared Aug 30 - the day the deal was inked in - Libyan-Italian Friendship...
DVDS Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini; unrated; out Aug. 26 At the end of Mussolini's reign, four Fascists take pleasure in subjecting young villagers to the worst sexual degradation. Criterion has reissued this grim, notorious film--the last work of the gay Marxist poet and director--in a classy two-disc set, a death skull grinning from...
...significance of Bill Clinton's presidency when he was campaigning for the nomination against Clinton's wife, he now cites it as an economic marvel. "During Bill Clinton's era in the 1990s, incomes for the average family went up by $6,000," he said. "During George Bush's reign in the White House, we have seen the average family income go down...
...giving me recommendations on a slew of sketchy nightclubs, I changed the subject to his family. From his change in demeanor, I knew I had touched on a sensitive subject. He replied that both his parents were killed by the Khmer Rouge. Although I was familiar with the reign of Pol Pot and knew that millions had died under his regime, the temporal proximity was surprising to me. Only a generation ago in Cambodia, almost a fifth of its citizens were killed. Now, after years of political and economic instability resulting from corrupt politics and the Asian financial crisis...
When her father, Imam Abdessalam Yassine, a respected Sufi cleric, made similar remarks during the reign of the last King, he was incarcerated in an insane asylum, and she concedes that political freedom has improved under Mohammed VI. Nadia Yassine also welcomes the fact that women are now allowed to conduct religious activities. "We need to restore a version of Islam that has less machismo," she says. After all, such efforts to bolster a gentler, more moderate form of Islam may stop Morocco turning into Iraq once Hollywood's cameras stop rolling...