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...League, supported by the powerful ultra-Catholic Radio Maryja, is campaigning for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion in all cases, including rape and incest. The ruling Law and Justice party has agreed to change the constitution to include a phrase that says that life is protected "since conception" to strengthen the anti-abortion laws but wants to keep the current exceptions that make the procedure legal. The opposition is split: with the left against the constitional change and the center-right uncertain of what position to support. A vote is planned for mid-April...
...invited the children for a field trip," daycare center owner Jun Ducat, told a local radio station via mobile phone. Ducat, along with at least one accomplice who wasn't immediately identified, took control of the bus at around 9 a.m., parking it illegally outside Manila's city hall. When the bus got the attention of police, the men announced they were holding two teachers and an estimated 30 children hostage. The men said they were armed with an Uzi submachine gun and hand grenades, although Ducat insisted that he didn't intend to hurt the children. "In case...
...Every time you turn on the TV, radio, or open a paper, people are talking about the threat of immigration and how immigrants and their children aren't integrating into French society," notes Serge Houngbedji, a business manager who is one of Montfort's few French-born black residents. "Here you have 23 cases of total integration of immigrants fulfilling functions the community needs, and they're rounded up an deported because they don't have the right documents. There's something wrong with that." Added a young Montfortais Malian, "People must know that when these Malians were arrested...
...real," Kurtz says. "I stumbled onto it." His strip was about office life at a magazine, and he called it PvP (short for Player vs. Player). By 2000 he was getting a million page views a month and could quit his day job doing Web design for a radio station. Now PvP has more than 150,000 readers a day, and Kurtz sells PvP merchandise and produces a regular animated version of the strip...
...director William A. Wellman’s 1950 film “The Next Voice You Hear,” radio broadcasts were God’s chosen intermediary with mankind. The role of mass media in that film, and others from the period, reflected Hollywood’s growing role in American society in the 1950s, said James Hoberman, senior film critic for the Village Voice newspaper, at a seminar yesterday. Speaking to a small gathering of film aficionados at the Carpenter Center, Hoberman offered a preview of his next book, which will focus on the role...