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...Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy to the region, is working on a media plan for Pakistan. It aims to develop the government's ability to disseminate information via new technologies such as cell phones. The idea is not to promote propaganda but to facilitate public-service messages, like emergency information or registration for refugees. The plan also allows for training government officials to become more open press officers, and to fund independent radio stations to counter those run by extremists. All this is good, but it's not enough. Pakistan's press needs to take a hard look at itself...
This year's third (!) and most ambitious novel about Dickens is Wanting, by the Australian - or if you like, Tasmanian - writer Richard Flanagan. Wanting begins when Dickens is mourning the death of his ninth child, Dora, and feeling increasingly alienated from his wife and from himself. "They say Christ was a good man," he cracks, "but did he ever live with a woman?" Flanagan's Dickens is a man who has only ever lived emotionally through his novels. Acting in Collins' play, which was called The Frozen Deep, he sets free feelings he was accustomed to keeping tightly confined...
...list of influences on Pixar's new film Up, from Dumbo to The Wizard of Oz, Richard Corliss overlooks another, earlier source of inspiration [May 18]. This is animation pioneer Winsor McCay's 1921 short film, in his Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend series, called The Flying House, in which the protagonist dreams that her husband adds wings and a propeller to their home and flies away into the universe to escape foreclosure. M. Thomas Inge, ASHLAND...
While I empathize with Edwards, she does not appear to hold her cheating husband too accountable. Affairs take two people, and she seems to place 99% of the blame on the other woman involved. Rose Richard, SIGNAL HILL, CALIF...
...government to appeal trials just as if it were a private party. This incident was also noted in the New York Times for inducing hissing at Harvard. “We had gone expecting all positive things and we were quite disturbed,” Lockshin said. His brother, Richard A. Lockshin ’59 had similar recollections. “I remember it—and mention it today—as a turning point in attitudes of many U.S. citizens toward Cuba,” Richard A. Lockshin said. He even quit the Fair Play for Cuba...