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...Heer explore the tribal warfare, sorcery, and payback he was drawn to as a filmmaker. His solution is novel, weaving seamlessly between the distant past (shot in black and white like the Thomson photograph) and a Technicolor Dreamtime, all of which is overlaid by Gulpilil's witty commentary. "Once upon a time, in a land far away," he begins, before breaking into a gale of laughter...
...including, obviously, the passage that allows the government to obtain these “tangible items” (such as business, medical, and library records) in the first place. This provision—arguably the centerpiece of the Patriot Act—allows the government to conduct searches upon the basis of “reasonable necessity” without the knowledge of those being searched. Though defenders of the provision call it an “expansion” of the Fourth Amendment, in reality it is a clear violation of that constitutional right. The Act?...
...general purpose of the bill is to call upon House Masters and the College administration to make a serious reform to the College’s restrictive co-ed housing policy,” sponsor of the bill Eric I. Kouskalis ’07 said. “We think that every student in every House should have the opportunity to live in a co-ed room if they wish to do so,” he said...
...notice that the politicians seem to be back-tracking even on things that they had more or less agreed upon. For instance, this effort to unseat Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Before Samarra, it seemed the parties had come to the general acceptance that he was going to remain Prime Minister in the new government. Now there seems to be a strong effort to dislodge him, and that really angers the Shi'ite bloc...
...Upon hearing of Slobodan Milosevic's death, Serbian President Boris Tadic could not find any family members in Milosevic's native Serbia to accept his condolences, so Tadic delivered his message to the former Yugoslav President's old party headquarters instead. Milosevic, who was on trial in the Hague for genocide, is still a potent symbol of Serbia's bloody past, but he no longer inspires much personal devotion beyond a small group of loyalists. (They were the ones spreading rumors of suicide and accusing the International Criminal Tribunal of murder for denying Milosevic's recent request to seek medical...