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...Petite Mère, directed by Burkina Faso's Raso Ganemtore, in which an 8-year-old rescues her newborn brother from infanticide and escapes to the city, and Petite Lumière by Senegalese director Alain Gomis, about a child's attempts to understand the world ("When I shut my eyes, are people still there?"). The festival will open with Anita Roddick: Mrs. Body Shop, a documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Weidenbach that focuses on Roddick's work in Ghana to establish a women's shea butter co-operative...
...insulting the Supreme Guide.”In a country referred to as the “largest prison for journalists in the Middle East,” Iranians face stiff penalties for exercising their right to free speech. Since April 2000, nearly 100 newspapers have been shut down because bold journalists dared to challenge the regime. One of the most prominent among them, Akbar Ganji, is currently serving his sixth year in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. He was thrown in jail for publishing articles implicating the regime in a series of murders, but his resolute defiance...
...Bush Administration plans to swiftly gut the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), claiming it is simply not cost effective. The program is slated for a $22 million cut, with just enough funds left to shut itself down over the next year. Community youth service is apparently a “luxury” America cannot afford at the moment...
...just unbelievable," said Jerome police officer Butch Tuxhorn, who estimated that 80% of the town's homes suffered some damage. Driving the streets around Springfield, traffic was jammed as police shut down major streets here to make way for the tow and electrical trucks, the diggers and the emergency equipment that scattered across the city to begin shoving aside nature's litter. Some of the capitol building's windows were blown out and other government buildings suffered some damage...
...that effect, Hu has presided over a recent crackdown on the media and political dissidents, a campaign that hasn't spared leftist thinkers either. Shortly before the NPC began, three leading leftist websites were shut down, including one dedicated to promoting Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought. Last month, Lang Xianping, a popular TV commentator who characterized the sale of Chinese state assets as plundering national treasure, had the plug pulled on his show...