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From a distance, it looks like an ordinary movie poster. Pasted to a bus shelter wall along Madrid's central Calle Segovia, it depicts a thin child looking upward toward credits printed in that look-at-me font that film-publicity posters seemingly always use. It's only when you get close enough to read the title credits that you realize something is amiss. "Ask Al Gore," one passerby queried his companion. "That's the name of a movie...
...international fame. Ensler developed the piece in order to celebrate the vagina and to help stop violence against women. The proceeds from this year’s performance benefit groups dedicated to preventing sexual assault, including the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Rosie’s Place, a shelter for homeless women and those fleeing abusive relationships. In addition, Ensler’s V-Day movement, which aims to end violence against women and girls, has chosen the rape and abuse of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo as its 2009 spotlight campaign. During the current conflict...
...building was constructed in 1928 as a shelter for the Harvard Square stop of the Boston Elevated Railway and is on the national register of historic buildings...
...medical crews, improperly used incendiary bombs such as white phosphorus in dense civilian areas (a claim also being internally investigated by the Israeli military), prevented the evacuation of wounded carrying white flags, and targeted schools, hospitals, supply convoys and a U.N. compound where over 1,000 civilians had taken shelter. Although Israel dropped thousands of leaflets and made phone calls to targeted buildings warning of impending bombardments, Palestinians argue that they had no safe places in which to take refuge amid Israel's fierce bombardment...
...which was cute but began with a noisy action sequence, loaded with adult-oriented car chases and explosions. (Yes, it was a parody, but that's lost on most preschoolers.) Stacked up against them, Hotel for Dogs seems decidedly tame. And if you've already promised your kids a shelter dog, as the Obamas have, there's nothing to fear. Except Puppies...