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...newspaper and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen maintained a stance against apology-seeking Muslim radicals, despite being accused by the Turkish Foreign Ministry of “abusing Islam in the name of democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.” However, the United Nations (UN), the European Commission and the Council of Europe were all quick to withdraw their support...
Director Michael Winterbottom’s (“Wonderland”) new film is an adaptation of an eighteenth century British novel, apparently well-known for being un-filmable. The novel is ostensibly Tristam telling his own life story, but he takes so many detours that the novel actually ends with his birth...
...with as much zing as a glass of warm, flat, seltzer. But what a difference a few pop cultural references make. Menschiness has suddenly become cool. Desperate husband Carlos on Desperate Housewives described his parole officer as one, while the term came up in an episode of the generally un-menschy ?Jake in Progress.? John Lithgow was just singing about them on Broadway in ?Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.? And a guest on Oprah even described her as ?Mensch of the Year? last month for admitting her mistake in initially defending fact-challenged best-selling author James Frey. Just in time...
...Yard? Did he even know what the Yard was? Think of your grandmother—have you brought her unique mannerisms and quirks to Harvard? Think of your uncle—will he one day be able to say that his niece was in junior tutorial with a future UN Secretary-General? You have taken the family in a startling and significant direction. While you take your exams, think of yourself as the newest chapter in a millennia-long odyssey of singularly interesting family history. Think of each paper as a small lightsaber battle in “Star Wars...
...months, Russia and China have been stalling the West's efforts to refer Iran's nuclear program to the UN Security Council. Last week, Russia finally backed an IAEA resolution to do so, only upon the condition that the Council doesn't take up the issue until March. Meanwhile, pundits believe, Putin had hoped to defuse the crisis by persuading Iran to shift its uranium-enrichment to Russia, which would deny it the ability to use such facilities on its own soil to produce weapons-grade material...