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...narrated movie reels the audience into its tale of young adults raised both in turn-of-the-millennium suburbia and in the shadow of their parents’ memories of genocide, primarily by letting its subjects tell their own story. A significant portion of the film is shot by the kids themselves with hand-held cameras. When Mallozzi is behind the camera, her three-year effort reflects a painstaking and nonjudgmental commitment to capture minute details and make sure we don’t turn the characters into immigrant saints or ethnic stereotypes...
...Those two, in particular, we’re looking for great things this season from,” Sproul said. “There wasn’t a shadow of nervousness in either of their play, and I know they were excited about their first goals...
...more time and effort to fix things than we ever supposed. What are your priorities as Prime minister? We knew the country was in bad shape; we didn't know just how bad it was. We have to tackle the moral and financial degradation of the state - widespread corruption, shadow businesses, a stagnating economy - right away. Normal people who want to invest in Ukraine are scared to come. This fear must be overcome. The government's opponents say that your reprivatization process will hurt investment in ukraine. All the properties that were commercially valuable were brazenly carved up by [President...
...SHADOW OF THE WIND By Carlos Ruiz Zafn Barcelona, 1945. A young boy becomes fascinated by a strange novel by a man named Julin Carax. But who was Carax? No one can agree. And why have all other copies of his books been destroyed? And who is that guy following the boy around, speaking in riddles and smelling of burned paper? The Shadow of the Wind is a sophisticated, Borgesian thriller about--and for--those select few for whom books and people, reading and living, are one and the same...
...drug addiction or abuse by one or both parties. Separating couples are free to work out their own parenting plan, which they're not obliged to register with the courts, although many do in anticipation of disagreements later on. The remaining cases are settled in what insiders call "the shadow of the law" - that is, in the offices of lawyers and mediators, many of whom, based on experience, tend to advise the male client not to waste his money pursuing custody or, indeed, to aim too high in terms of time with his children. In Australia, only 12% of children...