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...greatest difficulties faced was convincing the MFA to “take this risk” and co-present the films. But the risk seemed to have been worthwhile for all parties involved, as viewers filled the theater on Saturday. “People are craving for a wider exposure to Palestinian art and these [films] are easy to watch,” says Sawhney.The festival is geared toward the broader exposure to Palestinian art and identity through film screenings—according to the organizers, the material is carefully picked in order to fit a mainstream audience. However, nearly...
...long to admit the full details of his war record. He said it had taken him until his later years to find the right formula to discuss his decision. "It's only now, with age, that I have found a suitable way of talking about it from a wider perspective," he wrote. Mayor Adamowicz, who later admitted that he had agonized over what he would do if Grass failed to find the right words to apologize, accepted the explanation unreservedly. Walesa told TIME this week that Grass, in his view, is helping bridge the gap between generations...
...such civic-wide obsession began to wane as television crept in during the 1980s and Indians were exposed to the wider, far superior world of sports. "The knowledge seeped in that we weren't very good," says Bhimani. The militant sense of east-west ethnic pride faded with the partition generation and today support for the two clubs has to do less with regional identity and more with plain club loyalty. Imported Brazilian and Nigerian players now star for both sides and routinely swap teams. The bulk of the upper and middle classes who once passionately cared about Kolkata football...
Gosling, 26, has impressed Hollywood with his brooding performances as a crack-addicted middle-school teacher in last year's Half Nelson, which earned him an Oscar nomination, and a neo-Nazi Jew in The Believer, his breakout 2001 role. Wider audiences discovered him wooing Rachel McAdams in the 2004 romantic weepie The Notebook and pursuing a murderous Anthony Hopkins in this year's thriller Fracture. But it took Bianca's quiet charm to draw out Gosling's most appealing performance and the one closest, he says, to who he really is. Bianca, by the way, is a life-size...
...Along with many other economists around the globe, however, Naudé adds that letting the dollar's value decay in the medium and longer term will send a terrible message to foreign investors about the U.S. economy as a whole. "In wider terms, the dollar reflects the richness of the American economy, and a cheapened, sliding dollar will eventually send the same economic image out abroad," Naudé says. That could influence the foreign banks and give investors injecting $3 billion worth of capital required every day to keep the U.S. economy growing second thoughts about where they place their...