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Tuesday, May 21 2013
Fight Terror not Govt
RATHER than fighting terrorism, Pakistani judges and journalists are pursuing political vendettas against an elected government. On the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death last week, Pakistan was the only Muslim country in which hundreds of demonstrators gathered to show solidarity with the dead.
USELESS ECONOMICS
AFEW days ago, I read an authoritative-sounding paper in The American Economic Review, one of the leading journals in the field, arguing at length that the nation's high unemployment rate had deep structural roots and wasn't amenable to any quick solution. The author's diagnosis was that the US...
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Backstreet boy Howie D steps out on his own

HOWIE Dorough isn´t the most popular Backstreet Boy, and he knows it. He doesn´t have the youthful charisma of Nick Carter or the blond-bombshell looks of either Carter or Brian Littrell, let alone the bad-boy appeal of AJ McLean. All the same...

Eagle repository struggles to keep up with tribes´ needs
MILES from downtown Denver, in a small warehouse on the city´s edge, Bernadette Atencio watched as two men methodically bundled piles of dead eagles into boxes, careful to include enough frozen gel packs so the remains would not thaw. "This one´s going to Prescott," Atencio said, nodding toward one bird tightly parceled in plastic. "That one´s going to Pendleton." Despite appearances, this was not some surreptitious animal-smuggling ring. It was a typical Wednesday at the National Eagle Repository, the only place where American Indians can legally obtain bald and golden eagles from the federal government for traditional ceremonies. Through a series ...
Depp, Burton bring light comedy to Dark Shadows
WORKING with director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp has played many eccentric characters in the movies, from lonely monster Edward Scissorhands to eccentric filmmaker Ed Wood and the Mad Hatter of Alice in Wonderland. But there was at least one strange being they hadn´t tried - a vampire - and that´s about to change. The odd couple of Hollywood can check that character off their list now with the debut of comedic thriller Dark Shadows, based on the classic TV s o a p o p e r a t h a t r a n from 1966 - 1971 about vampires, werewolves and witches populating a ghostly manor house in the countryside. In an era that seems made for sexy bloodsuckers with six ...
Radha of The Forest all silk and steel, says Nandana Sen
NANDANA Sen says that her character of Radha in Ashvin Kumar´s The Forest, is the oldest she has ever played and one which is "silk and steel", displaying both a sharp tongue and a soft heart. The Forest is an ecological thriller which deals with the dynamics of human relationships against the dangerous and wild background of a forest. The plot of the story revolves around a couple who meet the wife´s ex-lover while on vacation in a forest. They are also haunted by the presence of a man-eating leopard in the background. "In The Forest I played a character much older than any role I´ve ever been cast in till date. I incorporated into Radha a great deal of interiority ...

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