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The News Review:

- Ravi’s home-grown philosophy
- Your Planet: The green gourmet
- England spread the net to find reserves of strength
- Search Results | Seattle Times Newspaper
- Jose drops England hint
- Study suggests film policy fails in English Canada

Ravi’s home-grown philosophy
IndiaGlitz – Sep 20, 2005
And the film’s hero feels that it would live up to it. Mazhai has shaped up well and would succeed at the box office, says Jeyam Ravi. A remake of Telugu blockbuster Varsham, Mazhai has Ravi playing the lead role opposite Shreya. ‘I have drenched in rain for several days during the shooting of this movie and I have had several bouts of fever, Ravi says and shrugs it off all as worth the trouble.

Your Planet: The green gourmet
The Independent – Independent – Sep 20, 2005
When it’s flown in from abroad, organic food is just as much a culprit as any other. A quarter of all the miles clocked up by heavy goods vehicles on the roads are due to food transport. If the choice is between organic imports and home grown – even if it’s not organic but at least responsibly produced – take whichever travelled least far. What is more exciting than looking forward to the brief asparagus season, to English cherries, to the return of native oysters in September? Knowing that some seasons are fleeting concentrates the cook’s mind, and sharpens the appetite. When English asparagus is at its best, bought in a bunch of spears from the farm where they picked it first thing that morning, there is no more luxurious supper. By contrast, our desire for luxuries such as farmed king prawns is causing environmental devastation along the coast of India. We should savour and pay for food that doesn’t have hidden costs.

England spread the net to find reserves of strength
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 20, 2005
On that trip, England took Mike Gatting and Graham Gooch as senior pros, a decision that did not work out particularly well for either team or players. By taking 36 wickets in 10 games at an average of 20, Udal has enjoyed a decent season for Hampshire but not a spectacular one, but then quality home-grown spinners are more rare than alpine swifts. Indeed, until Shane Warne was seconded by Australia for the Tests, he could not even get in the Hampshire team. Yet just being around Warne is enough to convince some players that the stardust has rubbed off and Udal credits the Australian with teaching him his new slider. By picking a 17-man squad, England have made capacity in the fast bowling department too, with Tremlett and Anderson backing up the main quartet of Jones, Stephen Harmison, Andrew Flintoff and Matthew Hoggard. All but Hoggard are involved in the one-day squad, which includes the promising Durham pace bowler Liam Plunkett.

Search Results | Seattle Times Newspaper
Seattle Times – Sep 20, 2005
, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a letter last week to look into the Posse Comitatus issue. But some military analysts note that the National Guard and active-duty soldiers often have been used in home-grown disasters or disturbances, from 1960s riots to Hurricane Andrew in Florida. The biggest lesson learned from Katrina has more to do with coordination and communications between state and local governments and the new Department of Homeland Security than any change in law, they say. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said concerns over Posse Comitatus are misplaced, since the president could have declared a national emergency. That would have freed troops to take part in law enforcement and other types of domestic duty.

Jose drops England hint
4TheGame – Sep 20, 2005
Jose Mourinho has revealed he would like to manage the England national team when his Chelsea contract expires in 2010. The Portuguese believes the Football Association should find a home-grown coach to succeed Sven-Goran Eriksson, but admitted he had a growing affinity for the country and that the chance to lead the England team would interest him.

Study suggests film policy fails in English Canada
CTV.ca – Sep 20, 2005
“The national English-language televised awards show (the Genies) is not very effective and does not draw well,” the report concludes. Paul Gratton, chairman of the board for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, defended the show, noting the audience had increased from 350,000 two years ago. Gratton, whose academy sponsors the awards, also said the ratings simply reflect the lack of interest shown by English Canadians in home-grown films. “The great challenge is English Canadians’ indifference to English Canadian movies, and the Genies are a very noble attempt to crack that every year,” he said from Toronto. The evaluation makes clear that Canada’s film policy works well in Quebec, where box-office share has risen to a respectable 21 per cent. The French-language market is more cohesive and integrated, and less subject to competition from Hollywood. But in English Canada, bombarded by big-budget American films, the millions of tax dollars poured into feature films did not make much headway.

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