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...United Nations kind of evening at the Palmares, the closing ceremony for the 60th Cannes Film Festival. Surveying a rich and rewarding slate of 21 films in the official competition, the jury, headed by Brit director Stephen Frears, gave out nine prizes to movies from eight different countries: Romania, Japan, the U.S., Germany, France, Russia, South Korea and Mexico. Only France had two winning films, and the directors of those were from Tehran and New York City...
...distracted us from the bigger and less tangible crisis that we face today: as the Bush administration continues its seventh year and the Iraq war its fourth, the country has lost faith in its government. Increasingly, Americans feel that real power rests not with the citizens but with the rich and well-connected. We live in an age when Jack Abramoff can buy influence on Capitol Hill and the president can lie to Congress, the country, and the world. Americans are not just looking for new leaders; they are looking for an entirely new type of leadership...
WHERE DID LIFE BEGIN? AS rich as that question has been for scientists, at least one fact is not in dispute. While a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Stanley Miller masterminded the most famous experiment in the field. By fashioning a semblance of a young earth, oceans and all, Miller discovered that amino acids--key building blocks of life--could be generated from the chemicals presumed to have been present on the earliest earth. The experiment, results of which were published in 1953, helped launch the scientific study of the origin of life...
...coalition's own 2006 report card on the Daley plan applauds the effort to build more permanent housing, but says the stock of affordable housing is actually flattening or shrinking as rich developers gobble up empty space and redevelop once ramshackle areas of town. The study, released last fall, says Daley "grossly underestimates the demand for homeless services in Chicago," and charges that "thousands of people are likely to end up abandoned and only a limited number of people helped...
...rich Venezuela's left-wing President, Hugo Chavez, is the shock jock of international politics - as he demonstrated in the U.N. General Assembly last year, when he referred to President George W. Bush as "the devil." To complement his anti-U.S. tirades, he has created a new alternative Latin American television network, Telesur - and has left free-speech advocates wringing their hands as he prepares to revoke the license of one of Venezuela's largest and most outspoken opposition networks, RCTV...