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...prize, the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), awarded on closing night by a nine- person Jury of directors, actors and other film folk. (Chinese auteur Wong Kar-wai is the 2006 Jury President.) Fremeaux also picks the entries for a sidebar program with the rather diffident name Un Certain Regard (A Certain Look). Other films, like tonight's Festival opener The Da Vinci Code, are shown out of competition. There's a selection called The Critics' Week and, a quarter-mile down the beachfront Croisette, the utterly independent Directors' Fortnight. That makes for about 100 films its selectors think...
...asylum in border countries such as China and South Korea. North Koreans who have escaped from Kim Jong Il’s totalitarian regime to bordering China have been sent back to North Korea to face imprisonment or execution, according to Amnesty International. China is a party to the UN Refugee Convention, and human rights activists say that China is required to grant asylum to North Korean refugees under that convention. Lee said he hopes to begin an activist movement on campus similar to the movement that focused on Sudan divestment here at Harvard. “Harvard students have...
...proof that abuse is not limited to the un-prescribed, and that attention disorders can frustrate and confuse even the believers...
...Marginalizing and criminalizing of immigrants is un-American," he said. "It does not make America stronger, even though our government tells us that it does...
...recognize the corrosive effects of entrenched bureaucracies and special interests, like the public employees unions, on the lives of the poor. I've also had problems with the reflexive tendency of Democrats to oppose the use of U.S. military power, even when that power has been sanctioned by the UN or NATO; I have absolutely no patience for those who believe the United States is a malignant or immoral force in the world...