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...nation, also lacks any such committee. "We were going to construct a committee for the purpose of submitting the film, but we never got that far," says the film's director, Elia Suleiman. "At least now the academy might have to re-evaluate the logistics of how they reject or accept films...
...Academy's Rule 14 says a Best Foreign Film entry's "dialogue track must be predominantly in a language of the country of origin except when the story mandates that an additional non-English language be predominant." That rule was used to reject the U.K.'s original submission, Asif Kapadia's The Warrior, which is in Hindi. A Western take on a Japanese fable transplanted to India, Kapadia's directorial debut earned rave reviews and three nominations at this year's BAFTA awards. The film has a second-generation British director, a British screenwriter and British backers - yet was considered...
...agents, called "cold walk-ins," approach enemy agents and "volunteer" for nasty missions. If the ploy works, the FBI has achieved a penetration. Sooner or later the walk-ins are revealed as plants. IF they're burned a few times, so the theory goes, the Iraqis will suspect and reject even bonafide volunteers from al-Qaeda...
...police commander noted that none of the men arrested revealed any information about his companions. - By Jeff Israely/Naples Not Above the Law Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lashed out at the judiciary on TV, accusing it of meddling in politics. His broadcast followed a decision by the Supreme Court to reject his request to move his corruption trial to Brescia from Milan, where he said judges were biased against him. The decision means that his trial, for allegedly bribing a judge during a corporate takeover battle in 1986, could end as early as this summer, just as Italy takes over...
...only did Beck reject Freud's idea of the unconscious self, but he also abandoned the formal reserve of the classic Freudian analyst. Freud believed the analyst should be as neutral and silent as possible. That way, Freud theorized, the patient can project personalities from his or her past onto the analyst and relive past conflicts right there on the couch. Freud called this process "transference." Beck and his followers aren't interested in transference. Instead cognitive therapists talk back to their patients, pointing out their misconceptions and advising them on how to see their lives more clearly...