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...Minutes: How did you come up with the idea for Pangea Day? Jehane Noujaim: Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, wow, this is such an incredible and global event. Imagine if you could get the world’s filmmakers, known and unknown, to get together [and make] a story for the world, by the world. How could you create the ‘World Cup of Storytelling’? 2. FM: Can you explain the quote of yours about Pangea Day, “Once you get to know someone, you can?...
...some basic commodities had already quadrupled. Even before the cyclone hit, Rangoon was reeling from the price hikes that had sparked last year's civil protests; additional increases could push tens of thousands of shantytown dwellers from chronic malnutrition to starvation. Outside Rangoon, the fate of millions remains largely unknown, since roads are blocked and telephone lines are down. In a frightening glimpse of the storm's destructive power, the country's state media reported that in the delta town of Bogalay alone, 10,000 people had been killed. Infrastructure has been heavily damaged, with some aid workers reporting...
...unidentified male approached a female student from behind and wrapped a thin wire around her neck early Tuesday morning before she kicked the unknown assailant and fled the area unharmed, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). A crime alert e-mail sent by HUPD Tuesday afternoon stated that the undergraduate was assaulted in Harvard Yard, near Lamont and Houghton Libraries by the stairs going down towards Pusey Library. The attacker remains at large. HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano declined to comment, stating that the incident is under investigation. Within an hour of the reported attack, women who learned...
...that to happen, however, Hillary Clinton will have to step out of the race. When that might happen, and what it would look like, remains the great unknown of the Democratic race. On the one hand, the path offstage seems obvious. On the heels of Tuesday's disappointing results, Clinton's advisers acknowledged that she has been forced to loan her campaign an additional $6.4 million in order to stay afloat. One of her key supporters, Senator George McGovern, announced on Wednesday that he is shifting his backing to Obama...
Indeed the museum's recovery may take a long time, and few who witnessed the looting have forgotten the frustration they felt as Iraq's riches were plundered. Five years after that catastophe, the centerpiece of Iraqi historical glory remains closed to the public. When it will reopen remains unknown. The larger stone pieces that never escaped the museum walls because of their weight remain in the shadows where they were left, some of them cracked from the failed efforts of looters to chip away chunks. But in one of the 27 halls, where intricately carved Sumerian wall panels depicting...