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...With his new release, Sha Ra Ra Ra, Mehndi is trying to keep pace with the times by adding what he describes as a moodier "jazz and blues" sound. But he's having a hard time keeping out the fun. At a recent recording session in Bombay, he still looked like a cartoon king, decked out in a black turban with sequined band, gold bracelets and chains, and a bright red designer shirt. ("I want the fans to look at Daler Mehndi like a maharajah," Mehndi explains.) He still has the same spring-soled bounce and huge smile...
...side, to mean a terrorist on his way to an attack. Administration sources doubt that Rantisi filled the bill. "Sure, we'll stipulate the guy's a terrorist," says a White House official. "Was he going to be responsible for a known attack? That's not clear." Sharon adviser Ra'anan Gissin says Rantisi was targeted because Sharon had received intelligence that he had organized the attack two days earlier on an Israeli army outpost in the Gaza Strip in which four Israeli soldiers died. This week Sharon's chief of staff, Dov Weissglass, is scheduled to visit Washington...
...mission, resulting in their discontinuation,” the report says. “To the RI [Radcliffe Institute], the RA’s activities are merely budget line items, to fund or not fund according to RI priorities, and with limited input from or discussion with the RA...
...they are hardly virtuous." In the tragicomic Pupendo, which has yet to be released internationally, Hrebejk sets out to excavate the shameless opportunism and self-censorship of Prague in the waning days of communism. Named after a popular children's game, Pupendo has two protagonists. Bedrich Mára, a well-known Czech sculptor expelled from the Prague art academy for political reasons, is a staunch anticommunist who boycotts elections, and a drunk who supplements his income through insurance fraud. Míla Brecka, on the other hand, is a school principal who clearly profits from his party membership...
...hails Hrebejk's ability to speak with "originality, imagination and humor about the dilemma of people trying to survive and have a decent life in a small country dominated repeatedly through centuries by powerful neighbors." Hrebejk's gallows humor makes Pupendo hilarious at times. In one scene, Mára's wife, who makes ceramic piggy banks for a living, switches from pig shapes to human butts with ears, suddenly a hot commodity. Many of Hrebejk's characters are ambivalent - capable of great heroism and craven cowardice, all while displaying an uncanny knack for survival. In Divided We Fall, which...