Dramatic emphasis
The News Review:
- Dramatic emphasis
- Jul. 21–COUPLE PICKS HOME BUSINESS
- The plot to bring back Benazir
- AP, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
- Hearts and Homers
- First up Rassie will focus on the structures
- Knee-jerk responses to terror lead to disaster
Dramatic emphasis
Australian – Jul 21, 2007
Brown says it is "hugely inadequate and an embarrassment to the ABC and to the industry, and it just makes it tougher all round". He fears that if the ABC’s drama output stays low, the commercial networks will rebel against the local drama quotas they must meet to retain their licences. (The commercial networks screen 100 to 200 hours of home-grown drama every year. )
Dalton, who joined the ABC in early 2006, says that even though the national broadcaster lacks the resources to make a lot of high-end drama, in recent years "there is no doubt that the ABC prioritised its funding away from drama to other areas. The story is there if you look at the statistics. " Dalton wants to change that. He says 14 hours of new Australian drama will be screened on the ABC this year… The other half will be spent on children’s TV and documentaries. Brown says the extra funding "is still far from adequate, but it’s a start and the ABC needs to build on it". Talk of a home-grown drama revival is also being driven by the federal Government’s new 20 per cent tax rebate for investment in local film and TV drama, announced in the last budget. Dalton says the tax rebate "will increase output but to what extent, we don’t know. I think it’s a positive step. " The SPAA is sceptical because only TV series that cost $600,000 an hour will attract the tax deduction. "That is too high for TV drama," Brown says.
Jul. 21–COUPLE PICKS HOME BUSINESS
Free with registration – Wichita Eagle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 21, 2007
Two rows away, her husband, Elzie, drives tomato stakes into the ground with a homemade device that functions as a kind of muscle-powered jackhammer. With each heave and loud clink of metal, his sweat-stained T-shirt rides up his belly. If you have ever wondered how locally grown produce makes its way to area farmers markets and restaurants, this is part of the answer. It’s hot, hard work. Despite Pat’s comment, it really doesn’t pay a lot of money. The full crate of basil, about two pounds in all, will bring about $22. And to get that, she will change out of dirt-stained pants, jump into a mud-stained van and personally deliver it to Il Vicino.
The plot to bring back Benazir
Guardian Unlimited – Jul 21, 2007
The west has been willing to overlook his drawbacks. For instance, Musharraf’s military record reveals him as a close ally of the Taliban. Early in his career, he acted as military mentor to Pakistan’s home-grown jihadi groups. He rose to power in a coup d’état, deposing prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999, and has refused to restore democracy. And no one reproaches him about the terrorist plotters at large in the tribal areas of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province – most likely Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar among them. “He’s one of my best friends,” George Bush declared at a Washington party in 2006, having overseen a 45,000% increase in aid to Pakistan’s military, which now totals more than $4bn. All that has changed.
AP, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
Taipei Times – Jul 21, 2007
PHOTO: AP As the Tour de France winds on toward the end of its second week, the stages are often more about the big losers than the big winners. Count Christophe Moreau among the former and Robert Hunter among the latter. Moreau had made the French believe that they might get a new home-grown winner at the Tour de France. But that hope was dealt a serious setback in Thursday’s 11th stage, when Moreau was dropped behind by a pack that was speeding away and led by stage winner Robert Hunter of South Africa. Overall leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark kept up with the pack and his advantage didn’t change against his main rivals — except Moreau, who dropped to 14th place from sixth and whose deficit nearly doubled, to 6 minutes, 38 seconds. “I think he definitely lost his chance of winning the Tour today,” Rasmussen said of Moreau, almost gleeful over having one less challenger to worry about. Rasmussen was less enthused about an announcement from the Danish cycling federation that he had been dropped from the national team for failing to keep authorities informed over his whereabouts.
Hearts and Homers
Washington Post – Jul 21, 2007
When he went on barnstorming tours between seasons, traveling in his special rail car, people would come out to the train tracks. He would step from the car, in robe, slippers and cigar, to wave. Grown men would go home and tell their children. Aaron, by contrast, played in the comparative boondocks of. He never hit 50 home runs in a season.
First up Rassie will focus on the structures
Independent Online – Jul 21, 2007
I want to spend quite a bit of time with Gary and the other guys who are involved in coaching down here. “My immediate priority is to oversee the contracting of players. Obviously I want to look at the local players, see what there is available, but we cannot just look at home grown talent. You have to look at your areas of weaknesses or positions where you may require a specific type of player and then recruit accordingly. “The transfer window has been open for three weeks and we need to start acting now. The contracting of the rest of my management team can take place later in the year. Again, I have a few ideas, and there are obviously people I have spoken to, but there will definitely be no clean-out.
Knee-jerk responses to terror lead to disaster
The Age – Jul 21, 2007
Thus, with even the weakest (and ultimately false)intelligence suggesting a connection between Saddam Hussein andal-Qaeda, we bomb a country into civil war. Having capturedhundreds of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, we incarcerate andprobably torture them in Guantanamo Bay. Confronted with the threatof home-grown terrorism, we enact a suite of anti-terror laws thatradically alter the legal environment: creating offencesessentially of future crime, providing for extended detentionwithout charge and possibly allowing convictions on evidence theaccused cannot even see. It is within this matrix of knee-jerk aggression that theincreasingly surreal saga of Dr Mohamed Haneef has developed in thelast fortnight. It is entirely reasonable that federal police would seek toinvestigate Haneef’s connections with recent failed terror plots inBritain. The main suspects are his cousins, and the now infamousSIM card he lent them was allegedly to be used as a detonationdevice. But there is good reason to suspect the case against him isweak.