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...great example: the people who most need new drugs or a vaccine are the least able to pay, so the drugs and vaccines never get made. In these cases, governments and nonprofits can create the incentives. This is the second way in which creative capitalism can take wing. Incentives can be as straightforward as giving public praise to the companies that are doing work that serves the poor. This summer, a Dutch nonprofit called the Access to Medicine Foundation started publishing a report card that shows which pharmaceutical companies are doing the most to make sure that medicines are made...
...production with China," says Lau. Medium-sized productions are few, meaning that up-and-coming directors are finding it hard to make the transition to mainstream features. Occasionally, established filmmakers will nurture protégés. To is producing medium-budget movies from editor and director Law Wing-cheong and screenwriter-director Yau Nai-hoi. Also nurturing talent is prolific filmmaker Eric Tsang, who produced Magic Boy, a vibrant 2007 love-triangle pic from second-time feature director Adam Wong, and Heiward Mak's recent debut High Noon, a drama of troubled youth shot with arresting flair...
...international, or Pakistani, terror networks. But experts are now coming to accept that the volume of recent attacks would not have been possible without a significant number of local recruits. "They are increasingly acquiring their own expertise," says B. Raman, former head of counterterrorism for the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external-intelligence agency...
...multiplex electorate with pictures that take sides. Oliver Stone is finishing up W, a biopic of President Bush. The documentary Stealing America: Vote by Vote, already playing in some cities, argues that voting machines are hardly more accurate than Ouija boards. There are even a couple of right-wing movies, which are almost illegal in Hollywood: An American Carol, an anti--Michael Moore comedy from David Zucker of the Airplane! and Naked Gun series, and Hype: The Obama Effect, from anti-Clinton provocateur David Bossie...
There are some, of course, who find anything Gates does or says nefarious. Last year the Los Angeles Times reported indignantly that while the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was busy saving lives from malaria, Africans continued to die of other causes. A more serious left-wing argument is that important social goals shouldn't have to rely on the charity of some corporation. While Gates sees what he calls "recognition"--credit for doing good--as a healthy incentive for corporations to behave well, others see the same phenomenon as propaganda and are not impressed. There is something deeply wrong with...