Word: criterion
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...Foreign-language films. A late Sunday-night slot, right after the silent movie, goes to non-English-language films: official classics, often from the superb Criterion and Kino collections, but also outre items like Munchhausen, a lavish Germany fantasy made in the last years of the Third Reich. A rich month was devoted to Mexico, the second largest film industry in the Americas; another to Italian neo-realism, curated and introduced by Martin Scorsese. (One disappointment: in the recent month dedicated by Sophia Loren, only five of the 23 films were Italian.) A season on Asian faces in Hollywood movies...
...their purchase by private citizens - although Poplawski was permitted to buy armor under Pennsylvania law. Federal statutes also block convicted violent felons from buying body armor - which can cost anywhere from $200 to $2,000 - but as far as investigators have found, neither Wong nor Poplawski previously fit that criterion. With laws varying from state to state, the gear can often be bought off the Internet or at specialist retail outlets. (Posh London department store Harrods recently began carrying a line of "high-security fashion" by Colombian designer Miguel Caballero...
Besides, Limbaugh plays a valuable role within conservatism. His show, like Fox News, is not as high-flown as conservative intellectual journals such as the New Criterion and First Things. But those publications have small circulations. Their influence is long-term and indirect. Conservatism needs mass media too, to affect day-to-day politics: jam phone lines and pull the national conversation rightward. It needs Limbaugh and the many like-minded talkers elsewhere on the airwaves. Doubtless they could do their jobs better, as could the conservative writers who scorn them. But if Limbaugh did not exist, conservatives would have...
...SEXUAL ORIENTATIONThis year, the organizers of Eleganza hope to expand their mission of promoting diversity in the arts by addressing the issue of homosexuality. The 2009 show is funded in part by a grant received from The Open Gate Foundation, managed by the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus. The criterion for the grant’s award is rather open-ended, stating simply that it must go towards supporting student, faculty, and employee groups that further a climate of open discussion on issues related to sexual orientation.According to Navarro, the show’s proposal laid out three ways...
...fair, the Stability and Growth Pact's credibility was straining long before the downturn. Most E.U. member states have run budget deficits beyond the 3% ceiling from time to time, while many have breached the pact's other main criterion: that national debt stay below 60% of GDP. Germany, the pact's main proponent, has been one of the most consistent abusers of the budgetary rules. In 2002, then president of the European Commission Romano Prodi even described the rules as "stupid...