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Cannes Diary Delusions Of Gatsby
which writer Raj Ranade says has set a high bar for other contenders at this year's Cannes Film Festival. It's true enough that ...
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Huntsman calls for crackdown on intellectual property theft says Washington Post
Intellectual property theft is a growing problem that the government needs to crack down on for the good of American companies, says Huntsman and ...
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The war on journalism
The continuing examples of the Obama administration’s targeting of journalists is advancing a new front in the war on journalism, according to Jonathan S. Tobin ...
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It’s Time for Burma’s President to Act
and several diplomats in Rangoon suggested that the central orders for the offensive did not come from the president's office, and some Western observers have told me in private conversations that a "rogue commander" was at work, out of the control of the president and commander-in-chief. Continued army operations were cast as "defensive actions," interpreted liberally ...
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How to Close Guantanamo
President Barack Obama finally broke his long silence on Tuesday on the need to close Guantanamo. Echoing comments he made four years ago -- when, on his second day in office he promised to close the facility within a year ...
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Editorial Raids report offers lessons for the future
Five and a half years after the Urewera raids, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has issued a report that is surely the last verdict on that strange operation. The authority has found "the police were entitled, on the information they had, to view the threat posed as real and potentially serious, necessitating investigation". Everything else the police did that day has to be judged in the ...
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Chinas Artist Provocateur Explores New Medium Heavy Metal
The video for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's newly released song starts by re-creating the conditions of his captivity during the 81 days he was held in police detention in 2011, later dissolving into a dystopian ...
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Florida has a chance to get mandatory youth sentencing right — next time
The Florida Legislature should not spend its time trying to craftily dodge a Supreme Court ruling. It should tackle this difficult issue directly and fairly. Next year, Florida has the chance to get it ...
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Op-Ed Contributors When America Stops Importing Energy
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Arrested Development Leads The Charge For Old Brands In New Media
returning via Netflix? Just another old-media brand reviving itself on new media. The TV show, which originally ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006 and unveils new episodes on Netflix next weekend, finds itself in splendid company. Radiohead, Louis ...
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Lets Get Creative And Redefine The Meaning Of Religion
Must religion be embodied in a god or gods, such as Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture? We all know how the battle lines shake out: evangelical vs. scientist, believer vs. atheist. The culture war defined as science vs. religion is so overheated that it seems to be more of a caricature than a coherent, useful discussion. Unless, that is, someone is trying to stretch beyond the ...
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Letters Internet sales tax the consumers last word
In the war of businessmen against the people, the businessmen seem to have won the battle for collecting sales tax on products purchased from out-of-state ...
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Despite Cheap Wigs the CIA Are Big Spenders
The spy scandal involving U.S. diplomat Ryan Fogle reveals some interesting points about relations between the U.S. and Russia. First, Fogle supposedly offered a Federal Security Service officer $100,000 for the first meeting and $1 million annually, plus bonuses, if he agreed to share classified information with the U.S. This is much more than informants have been paid in the past. By ...
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Globe Editorial Canada should lift outdated visa restrictions on ANC members
In this photo supplied by the Government Communications and Information Services (GCIS) South African President Jacob Zuma, right, and Governor General of Canada, David Johnston attend a welcoming ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Elmond ...
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Soderberghs Liberace Behind The Candelabra
Director Steven Soderbergh had been looking for a way to frame a film about the extravagant entertainer Liberace for years when a friend recommended the ...
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Editorial Mandel a hard act to follow
Just days after voters go to the municipal polls Oct. 21, Stephen Mandel will step down as mayor of Edmonton. And nearly everyone in this city will wish him well.Edmonton has enjoyed quite a ride with Mandel, and as the mayor prepares to leave public office, those who will soon jockey to succeed him must know they have a tough act to follow.The capital is a better, bolder and more sophisticated ...
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My Secret to Boost Student Performance
Konstantin Sonin Judging by the current debate on education in Russia's schools and universities, it might seem that the most pressing problems are the need for a mandatory reading list and a uniform history textbook for schools, along with the personality traits of the education minister. I admit that these questions are interesting to discuss, but as a university professor who also ...
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Russia Declares New Cold War in Its Far North
Whenever talk turns to the Cold War, it calls up memories of the superpower standoff, the arms race, regional conflicts, the constant threat of enemy missile launches and, of course, the way the Soviet Union lost the Cold War when its economy and technological prowess collapsed in 1991. But at the same time that the Soviet Union was engaged in a Cold War with the West, it was fighting an even ...
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Book Review E.b. White On Dogs
Martha White Tilbury House, $22.95, 178 pages, illustratedSince the first dog warily entered the first cave, the relationship between man and beast has been intriguing to man, and perhaps to beast as well. A key to the relationship has been a dog’s dependence on its master for food and board, in return for which it is expected to provide companionship, admiration and occasionally other ...
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The future of wiretapping
In the not-too-distant future, video calling is likely to be a standard feature in Web browsers, potentially turning every website into a virtual phone booth or party ...
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Sexual assault in jails
A new government report singles out Los Angeles County's Twin Towers as having one of the worst rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual assault of any men's jail in the nation. One in 20 inmates held there reported that he had been victimized by another inmate while in custody, far higher than the national average of 1 in 60, according to the Department of ...
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McManus Obamas IRS choice
Treasury Department 's inspector general asked that latter question of the IRS brass, and they said no - but he didn't demand their emails and phone ...
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Spain’s Attacks on Fighting Back
At a demonstration near the Spanish parliament on April 18, a housing rights activist joked that the crowd should divide up with terrorists on one side and Nazis on the other. Everyone laughed, but there is a dark side to his sarcasm. Since March, local and national politicians have used every name in the book to delegitimize the Platform for Mortgage Victims, a grass-roots movement that has ...
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AU has neglected human rights
The 50th-anniversary celebration of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its successor, the African Union (AU), at the biannual heads-of-state summit next week is an important milestone. But, while they are celebrating, Africa's leaders should also do some serious reflection on why they haven't made sufficient progress on human rights. The AU should use this gathering to call ...
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MARCUS Still Hating Breitbart
Breitbart ,'; which was released digitally and in theaters last week across the United States, I had the distinct and unique privilege of ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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