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...through the '90s, movies houses in the Chinatowns of big U.S. cities showed Hong Kong films; and as the Desi community grew in the States, a nationwide chain of about 50 theaters played Indian hits. But Chinese and Hindi speakers mostly saw their favorite pictures the way we fanboys did: by renting them at specialized stores. Since the films were getting little official attention here, we video savants had two underground treasure troves all to ourselves. (See TIME's All-Time 100 Greatest Movies...
...Montreynaud of the feminist organization Chiennes de Garde (Guard Dogs) likened Dati to women in the 1920s who gave birth on the factory floor for fear of being fired. The hundreds of readers who ranted on the website of the magazine Femme Actuelle the day after Dati's return saw a different problem: many accused the Minister of near-criminal mothering...
...your kids' elementary school after him, as people in Hempstead, N.Y., did? Wait until he's got a presidential library. Wear an Obama shirt, sure, if that's how you feel. Wearing one that says "The only TRUTH that stands before us is OBAMA," as two dozen guys I saw at the Democratic Convention did, puts you at the center of Crazyville...
...Clinton's approval by the Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday morning is all but guaranteed. But Senator Lugar has laid down a marker over the potential for conflict-of-interest questions surrounding foreign donations to Bill Clinton's charitable endeavors. And if it turns out that Senator Lugar saw trouble before it arrived, it won't have been the first time...
...infamous Lost Decade of little to no economic growth. And it was, in part, the withdrawal of Japanese capital from the region that helped set off the Asian crisis in 1997 and '98 - when countries from Thailand to Russia to Indonesia to South Korea devalued their currencies and saw their economies crash. The lesson for Geithner was clear. "From my time in Japan and then dealing with the crisis of the late '90s," he once told me, "I got a deep conviction: you don't want to dither...