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...winner Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) or Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Kandahar), but his unblinking, gritty style is quickly turning him into the country's most courageous social filmmaker. Poverty, censorship, the justice system, women's rights - the subjects he tackles read like a list of hot-button issues guaranteed to tick off the authorities. In his 1995 feature debut The White Balloon, a little girl out to buy a goldfish is preyed upon by hustlers trying to separate her from her cash. The Circle (2000) explores the intertwining stories of different women, all victims of a sexist society. And Crimson Gold...
...making the announcement, Time Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey said he found Stengel "an especially exciting new M.E. because he has both the outsider?s perspective and the insider?s appreciation and knowledge of who and what makes TIME tick. His intellectual depth and breadth are long established, as are his leadership qualities and competitive spirit. But in his stint as head of the Constitution Center he has gained a new appreciation for the skills and strategy required to harness the energy of an organization like TIME...
...kids remain free to load up on sugar on their way to school. "We'll just get it someplace else," says Zach Pilkington, 15, a student at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in Des Moines, Iowa. "It's not going to change anything. It's just going to tick people...
...timely expose in the October 19th issue of Fifteen Minutes took us one tick closer to solving the mystery of the giant old green clock in Harvard Square outside Bank of America. The timepiece was inexplicably stuck—seemingly permanently—at 12:16. Now FM returns with a hard-hitting follow-up investigation. The clock, of which neither Bank of America nor Cambridge nor Harvard will claim ownership, now reads 10:15. What is the significance of the clock’s nine-hour and fifty-nine minute great leap forward to the future? Or rather...
Although a show like RH may be incredibly popular inside its niche, it does not have the potential to support the station financially. To understand what makes the station tick, one must look to WHRB Classical...