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...there's nothing new under the screen. As the temperatures drop outside, though, the cinematic IQ rises. It's too late for the muscle-bound blockbusters, too early for Christmas piety but just the right time for filmmakers' innovation and impudence. Here are four films that are trespassing on virgin soil...
...less touristy section of the Plaka district. If you want to whip up your own batch back home, skin a baked eggplant while it's still fairly hot, then mash it up with a dash of lemon juice and a cup of extra virgin olive oil - Greek, natch; mix in some grated raw onion, two cloves of garlic, parsley, vinegar and some salt and pepper. And, as the Greeks say, kali orexi (bon appétit)! yiouvetsi This traditional lamb casserole is named after the round terracotta dish in which it's cooked. Long a staple of Greece 's island...
...Donna Christian-Christensen of the Virgin Islands, who is noted for being the first female physician in the U.S. Congress, noted a number of disparities in health care...
...hundreds of miles from their families. One of them is a 16-year-old girl named Rana who was raped by her neighbor last April in the city of Nasiriyah. When her family discovered what had happened, her brothers decided to kill her, since she was no longer a virgin. A cousin who was aware of the plan took Rana to a nearby Italian military base; she was later moved to Baghdad and finally to a secret location farther north. Having fled her family, she is unlikely ever to return home. "We hope to get a written guarantee from...
...tears. My pragmatic, journalist side is upset and angered by the futility of some of these pilgrimages, particularly those of the parents who have brought mentally disabled children here. Holy water doesn't stop cancer, chemotherapy does; and a three-dollar bar of soap in the shape of the Virgin Mary won't do much in the way of healing birth defects. But my emotional, aesthetic side is completely struck by the wonder of the scene: by the music echoing from the giant underground basilica, by the way people's hands lovingly stroke the rocks of the grotto...