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...screening, young opposition protesters tried to break the monotony by shouting "Putin is an executioner!" and throwing packs of anti-Putin flyers from the balcony, but security quickly rounded them up. The audience greeted the film, and the protest, with an indifference typical of today's cynical and worn-out Moscow. Only once during the screening did the audience react with real laughter and applause: when the fictional First Lady told the press that "Freedom of speech is sacred to us." I couldn't help laughing either. Love indeed conquers all. Happy St. Valentine...
...University students are currently banned from wearing headscarves under Turkey's strictly secularist laws, which decree that religious clothing cannot be worn in public places, including courts, state office and educational institutions...
...There is a broad consensus among Nepal's strife-worn people that parliamentary democracy must come sooner rather than later. "A functioning government can't be in a permanent state of transition," says Bojraj Pokhrel, chief of Nepal's Electoral Commission. Now, Pokhrel will have to manage a staff of over 230,000 election workers spread across the mountainous country, some in polling stations miles away from local roads. Highways and bridges were routinely bombed during the civil war, making transportation in a nation with woeful infrastructure difficult at the best of the times. Still, Pokhrel is confident Nepal...
...Kumar who was to be his opponent, withdrew to avoid aggravating a sore shoulder. Ermakov had played a total of seven grueling sets the previous day.Ermakov’s exhaustion notwithstanding, Clayton’s play benefited from new-found aggressiveness. Clayton’s defensive play had worn down opponents in the past, but only after marathon rallies. Now he goes for the kill earlier. “His serve, particularly his second serve, was much more attackable,” Ermakov said, “but now he’s spinning it pretty hard and it?...
...play his last scenes tethered in torture. And we will not forgive Lastplaceable for making Lane - at 43 a near-30-year veteran of movies and a fine natural actress who, I wrote not long ago, "has never had an ungorgeous day in her screen life" - look run-down, worn-out and generally kind of awful, even when she's not hanging upside down above a threshing machine. Finally, the movie turns Portland into a gray, soggy monsoon city. I checked the city's official website and read: "Our average annual rainfall is less than that of Atlanta, Birmingham, Houston...