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...news programs that gave gay men and women a human face, and acquainted the public with the prejudice gays encounter. Activists visited high schools to create gay role models and counter stereotypes. By 1996 the country had legalized gay civil unions, and Sigurdardottir had served as a Cabinet minister. Today, only 6% of Icelandic clergymen say they would refuse to perform a gay marriage. "We're a small country of 300,000 people, so news spreads quickly," Thorhallsson says. "If you get on the main news program, your message will reach everybody...
...gray landscapes owe as much to film noir as to Manila's inescapable haze, to the surrealism of Ventura, Philippine art has finally become, as Mashadi puts it, "post-ideological." And it is this mature quality that has caught the attention of the Asian art market. Philippine artists today have scattered in their own interesting directions. The achievement of Thrice Upon a Time is showing how they got there...
...thing, it's under more pressure. In preparing the 9/11 attacks, the hijackers and their bosses took dozens of international flights and repeatedly opened U.S. bank accounts under their own names. Al-Qaeda operated a document center at the Kandahar airport. All that would be virtually impossible today, as hordes of counterterrorism officials scrutinize financial transactions and cell-phone calls, and drones track al-Qaeda leaders around the clock. And while government no-fly lists remain flawed, at least they exist. Today, the number of suspected terrorists prohibited from boarding a plane in the U.S. is about 4,000. Before...
...What a lot of people don't realize is that with the increasingly strict obligation to prove your citizenship, you can walk into a state administration today to have your ID or passport renewed, and walk out virtually a stateless person," says Naulleau, 48, whose family had been posted to Baden-Baden, Germany - about 30 miles from the French border - when he was born in 1961. "The situation is creating a two-class system of citizenship in which French nationals born abroad or to foreign parents are treated as inferior, and forced to prove their worthiness of being French more...
...others, India's movie-mad audiences are a vital growth market. Domestic box-office revenues are expected to grow from their $2.5 billion today to over $4 billion in 2012, according to a 2009 entertainment-industry report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the accounting and consulting firm KPMG. In the past, American studios operating from the Bollywood capital of Mumbai were limited by relatively few outlets; in 2005, there were only 13,000 single-screen cinemas in a country with 1.2 billion people. But India's real estate boom and 9% economic growth rate...