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Thanks to a group of Dutch and Palestinian activists, people can now immortalize their words on the wall without a passport or a can of Krylon. For $40, you can compose a message at www.sendamessage.nl, and a trio of Palestinian graffiti artists will spray your words on the wall and e-mail you a photo as proof. The only restriction: no messages of hate or anti-Semitism. When I caught up with the artists--Faris Arouri, Yousef Nijim and Raji Najam--Nijim was shooing a herd of goats away from his stencils, which were lying on the ground. "They...
...debut as a pan-sexually voracious attorney in Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lynn Hershman-Leeson cast her as Lord Byron's daughter Ada King, who devised an early computer, in Conceiving Ada, and, in Teknolust, as a geneticist who makes three copies of herself (you must see the trio dance together in kimonos). But it was Sally Potter's Orlando, which Swinton helped raise the money for, that won the actress her sturdiest pre-Hollywood acclaim...
...drama mogul of Alias, Lost and Fringe and a member of that ultra-exclusive club, the TIME 100. "J.J. Abrams is officially the Lazarus of movie directors," proclaimed box office stats swami Steve Mason - though Abrams' only other retooling, Mission: Impossible III, was the lowest-grossing of that action trio...
...This week, France's senior investigating magistrate, Françoise Desset, ruled that a case brought by the anticorruption organization Transparency International against three African leaders had sufficient merit to warrant a full judicial investigation. The complaint accuses the trio - Gabon's President Omar Bongo, President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, and Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema - of pillaging their impoverished nations and treating state money as their personal wealth to finance acquisitions in France. The ruling means Desset can use her judicial authority to examine banking and other records to determine the origins of funds...
...fascination that Americans have about this drama is more about Chrysler as a memory than what it is today. Forty years ago, the company was the fifth largest in America, almost as big as GE (GE), and larger than IBM (IBM) and AT&T. The car firm trio held three of the top five slots in terms of annual sales in the U.S. They were a significant part of national GDP and employed almost over 1.3 million people. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...