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...something, she does it with zeal - whether that means attaching her name to a hit Broadway musical (The Color Purple), storming the campaign trail on behalf of her favorite presidential candidate or launching the most influential book club in publishing history (her latest pick, Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them, was shipped to bookstores just last week). So when even the hint of a possible Oprah Winfrey Film Club arose at this year's Toronto Film Festival, reporters took note. "A film club," the TV icon said in response to a question at a Sept. 13 press...
...wide day of action, which, along with the milk-dumping, also included a "milk strike," with farmers refusing to deliver to industrial conglomerates that produce cheese, skimmed milk and other products. The farmers' aim: to force the European Union to take action to combat plunging milk prices, which they say have left them in financial ruin. (Read "China's Poisoned-Milk Scandal: Is Sorry Enough...
...Dairy farmers say they have yet to feel the effects of the E.U.'s market intervention. They have called on the E.U. to immediately abandon its plans to scrap the milk quotas and implement new, more stringent production curbs to make milk scarcer and thus more expensive. (See pictures of urban goat-breeding...
...farmers say they can't afford to wait. They have promised to continue their protests until the E.U. meets their demands. If not, the continent can expect more milky crop-spraying in the months to come...
...fortitude while serving on the Allied side in World War II - Felix knows his chances of succeeding in junta-controlled Burma are as slender as the jungle vines KIA soldiers sometimes eat to survive. So he has joined other disillusioned university graduates among the KIA ranks. "Some people say we must have dialogue with the SPDC," he says, referring to the junta by its Orwellian-sounding moniker, the State Peace and Development Council. "But that is a snail's pace. The only thing the SPDC understands is force, so we must meet their force with ours...