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...tried for years to persuade the two sides of Sri Lanka's conflict, which has taken close to 65,000 lives, to talk peace. Those efforts have largely failed, and despite the 2002 cease-fire, this year the island has appeared poised to return to war as a new wave of violence has swept over it. Around 200 people have been killed in the last month alone. After the latest attack, the Sri Lankan government launched air strikes on Tiger territory for the second time this year...
...people who borrowed heavily to buy new homes during the recent boom, the damage is done. Those hugely popular adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMS) have always had a catch--the low initial rates last only a year or so--and the new terms are now kicking in for the latest wave of ARM holders...
...with Melville, who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach a generation before the French New Wave, which revered him, and took as his nom de cinema the name of the author of Moby Dick . It was intended as an homage to the things American that he admired - most particularly genre crime films. It is therefore an irony that his work is so little known in the United States, though Bob LeFlambeur, released here in the ?80s, about robbing the take at a Deauville casino, is the greatest heist movie I?ve ever seen. It is more than an irony...
...same time, leftists riding an angry anti-globalization wave in Latin America, where the gap between rich and poor has only widened in recent years, are winning elected office around the region at a remarkable pace. Another, Ollanta Humala, may win Peru's presidential election this month, and he too has pledged to drastically renegotiate his nation's contracts with foreign energy and mining companies. Meanwhile, though the front-runner in this year's Mexican presidential race, former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is more friendly to foreign investment than the likes of Chavez, he has also pledged...
...that Jews still occupy many of the top positions. What that translates into is incredible difficulty getting a film about the Jewish experience made. It’s part of the “keep your nose down” philosophy. This movie is part of the new wave of Jewish pride—like black pride or gay pride. THC: Does your film offer a unique view of Jews or Judaism? SL: I think that the movie explodes certain stereotypes about Jews: the men are not nebbishes and the women are sexy. As for Judaism, one of the central...