Bosnian drama wins Golden Bear
The News Review:
- Bosnian drama wins Golden Bear
- Red Sox Notebook: Despite shuffling, Sox’ brass figures outlook…
- The real Notting Hill
- Mass gathering at Mas Camp
- Immigration loophole leads to spread of fake-ID mills
- Online edition of Sunday Observer – Features
- Online edition of Sunday Observer – Sports
Bosnian drama wins Golden Bear
The Age – Feb 19, 2006
The Jury Grand Prix award, a runner-up prize, went to the Danishfilm A Soap, about the love affair between a woman and atranssexual, and Offside, an Iranian soccer comedy. The festival’s Silver Bear for directing went to Britishfilmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross for The Roadto Guantanamo, which tells the true story of three BritishMuslims held at the US prison camp in Cuba for more than two yearsbefore being released without charge. Two German stars picked up the Silver Bears for acting, a strongyear for home-grown film at the international festival. Sandra Hueller won the best actress nod for her role in the truestory of a epileptic girl who died in 1970s Germany after anexorcism. Moritz Bleibtreu, star of the film Elementary Particles,won the best actor prize for his performance as a sexuallycompulsive teacher in the German adaptation of the best-sellingnovel by French literary bad boy Michel Houellebecq.
Red Sox Notebook: Despite shuffling, Sox’ brass figures outlook…
Providence Journal – Providence Journal (subscription) – Feb 19, 2006
We’ve had some accomplishments on both fronts, and what we’re starting to see now is an intentional collision, which is nice, that’s what you plan for. You have a farm system to help the major league team. Epstein was talking about the two-pronged importance of the farm system, both to feed the big-league team directly with home-grown talent and also by trading some of it for more polished pieces to the puzzle. And while Epstein acknowledged trading youngsters such as Anibel Sanchez and Hanley Ramirez, bringing Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell to Boston, he pointed out that the Sox still have many prized prospects in the pipeline. “We believe in balance,” said Epstein. Quieter environmentA year ago, Boston’s training camp was overrun by media on the first day. That won’t be the case this year.
The real Notting Hill
Telegraph.co.uk – Feb 19, 2006
It’s a shocker all right, and intentionally so. The more adults who tut, the more teenagers who will buy tickets. With a soundtrack featuring cutting-edge home-grown talent, such as The Streets and Dizzee Rascal, Kidulthood is a film of formidable grit that aims to expose the tough-nut centre of chocolate-box London. It is set on the council estates bordering Ladbroke Grove, a landscape of grim towers and graffiti-scrawled underpasses rarely visited by film crews, despite being cheek by jowl with some of the most expensive postcodes in town. ‘When you see films about west London, it’s all Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant! You know, Notting Hill, Four Weddings, Actually Love… or whatever it’s called, and [Bridget] Jones. I thought it was good to show another side. ‘ So says Noel Clarke, the screenwriter and star of Kidulthood, whose personal experience informs much of the action.
Mass gathering at Mas Camp
Jamaica Observer – Feb 19, 2006
But the party didn’t stop there, as the Sparkles Disco team went retro – pulling on a few good ole’ Sparrow, Arrow and Byron Lee tracks. By now, a mass of gyrating bodies flooded the site with some forming soca trains while others took to the asphalt ground with verve and stamina. The euphoric atmosphere continued with the introduction of more home-grown vocals from energy god Elephant Man. The disc jockey played soca-infused versions of several of the dancehall artiste’s work including Dat We Nah Do and Signal De Plane. The characteristic feel good vibe of the Bacchanal Jamaica family was maintained with the aptly decorated venue – models paraded across the grounds in this year’s bejewelled costumes. Meanwhile, a nearly 20-foot screen showed highlights of last year’s staging. Decor aside, the well-stocked bar seemed to be the night’s energy booth; as patrons piled up to get drinks before attempting another round of ‘madness’.
Immigration loophole leads to spread of fake-ID mills
San Diego Union Tribune – Feb 19, 2006
In the past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun working more closely with the county District Attorney's Office to prosecute false-document manufacturers, who can be prosecuted under both federal and state laws. Penalties for making false documents are relatively slim, though. First-time offenders – as many home-grown document counterfeiters are – might get six months in jail, according to prosecutors. Depending on their immigration status, offenders who are noncitizens can be deported after they serve their time. A new state law went info effect at the beginning of this year that makes it a misdemeanor to possess document-making devices with the intent to defraud. Prosecutors think it could help in some cases, but they don't put much faith in how effective it will be overall. “As a practical matter, for felony prosecutions, it's not going to help very much,” said Keith Burt, a San Diego deputy district attorney and director of a multiagency task force that focuses on high-tech crime.
Online edition of Sunday Observer – Features
Sunday Observer – Feb 19, 2006
Even his musical avocations were directed towards
the mastery of the tabla, as opposed to a western instrument. His career
began at the end of the colonial period; it has drawn to a close in an era
of globalization and neo-colonialism, when everyone seems to think that what
is imported is better than what is locally produced. He must have been heartbroken when Sri Lanka turned towards foreign
technology for prestressed concrete railway sleepers in the nineties, a
technology he had home-grown in the seventies. In spite of this, he trod the
often lonely path of innovation and self-reliance. That in fact is the very appropriate title of the Kulasinghe Felicitation
Volume produced by the Institution Engineers, Sri Lanka: "Innovation and
Self-Reliance". The era of engineering in Sri Lanka covered by the volume is
also called the "Heroic Age". Innovation then was the other driving force in
his career.
Online edition of Sunday Observer – Sports
Sunday Observer – Feb 19, 2006
Perera grew up during a period when the resurgence of national
consciousness was in full flow. Home-grown institutions like Ananda, Nalanda
and Dharmaraja were not merely schools but centres where the collective
conscience of emerging, independent Sri Lanka was being formed. During this
period of significant social change, hardship and struggle were facts of
daily life for these institutions and the people who gave them life. The
forces arrayed to undermine them were many. Even sports, like cricket, were not just amusements but part of the
struggle to conclusively prove that the ‘natives’ were capable of achieving
excellence and taking care of their own affairs. ‘PW’ was a student at
Ananda between 1935 and 1941, playing for the college for four years from
1938 to 1941.