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...family. Several of the almost 2,000 responses to an online story in the Rio newspaper O Globo accused the Lins e Silvas of "kidnapping" the boy. Some criticized what they called a stunt by the boy's step-grandmother of displaying to the press hand-painted posters purportedly written by the child that declared "I want to stay in Brazil forever." Others online commenters argued that another family without the name or legal background of the Lins e Silvas would have not secured such consistent triumphs in the appeals process...
...behind Kaiser’s subject matter lies a personal history of witnessing oppression that has led him to study Victorian literature as works that were written in a time of deep political upheaval...
...made up. The Young Victoria features the jolly King William at his birthday banquet, quite in his cups, trashing Victoria's mother. It's a funny bit, ending with Richardson huffing off and some dry old man saying, ruefully, "Families." This scene has the mark of something written expressly for Broadbent by Fellowes, but in Lytton Strachey's biography Queen Victoria, and again in Christopher Hibbert's, you'll find that scene, told exactly as it is onscreen. The only difference is that Blunt's Victoria doesn't burst into tears as the real princess apparently did; the movie heroine...
...secret push to build nuclear weapons. But last weekend a document, purportedly from inside Tehran's nuclear program, surfaced in a London newspaper suggesting that Iran has been busy developing the sophisticated devices necessary to trigger a nuclear explosion. Some intelligence officials believe that the undated document was written in 2007 - the same year U.S. intelligence said Iran had frozen its weapons program. Then again, neither the U.S. nor other Western intelligence agencies are able to verify the document's authenticity...
...ugly headlines are a p.r. disaster. But who knows if any business will be materially impacted by the Woods scandal? Bottom line: sponsors shouldn't overreact. "You can't just look at today," says Ganis. "There's just so much to this story that has yet to be written...