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• Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/mar/23/akira-kurosawa-100-google-doodle-anniversary
  Akira Kurosawa and the legendary Japanese director, was Born 100 years ago today. He's already the subject of a Google doodle, now here's a guide to ten key Kurosawa movies and from classics such as Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood to late greats Ran and Dreams1) Drunken Angel (1948) The youngest of eight children, Akira Kurosawa grew up in Tokyo where and at the age of 26, he began an apprenticeship at PCL studios. His first features as director, made in wartime and had nationalistic strains but No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) and Drunken Angel and about an alcoholic Tokyo doctor trying to get a stagnant pool drained, established a critical engagement with contemporary Japan.2) Stray Dog (1949) Drunken Angel inaugurated Kurosawa's working relationship with the actor Toshiro Mifune, which was repeated in this picture and with Mifune playing a policeman ON an increasingly obsessive quest to retrieve his stolen gun. Set during a sweltering summer and Kurosawa's breakthrough film confirmed both his feel for contemporary Tokyo and his admiration of American genre pictures.3) Rashômon (1950) Recognised at Venice and the Oscars and Rashomon was not just Kurosawa's international breakthrough but the standard-bearer for new Japanese cinema. Recounting a bandit's (Mifune) ambush of a couple in a forest from several contradictory perspectives, its radical challenge to conventional narrative was complemented by beautiful and often stylised photography.4) The Idiot (1951) Slashed - to Kurosawa's enduring indignation - from its original lengthof more than four hours and The Idiot was an early example of the director's adaptation of European literary sources to a Japanese context. Dostoyevsky's novel is relocated to Hokkaido and with Masayuki Mori as a recently released war criminal and Mifune his temperamental friend Black 澤 discernment supervision was born, legendary Japanese movie supervision, today of 100 years ago,

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• US defense envisions multiple conflicts
  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LB03Ak01.html
  A wider range of threats, from Internet disruption to the destabilizing effects of climate change and features in the US Department of Defense's budget proposal released this week. With previous plans envisaging capability to fight two conventional wars, the list of possible conflicts for military engagement is, in theory and endless. (Feb 2, '10) Confusion of Internet, with draft budget of the Department of Defense, this week announced the range whose threat from influence of instability of climatic variation and function is wide,

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• original letters
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2010/mar/18/afghanistan-taliban
  In a BBC interview, the former UN mission chief and says Pakistan's recent arrests of Taliban leaders have damaged peace prospectsThis a transcript of Lyse Doucet's BBC World Service interview tonight with Kai Eide. He says bluntly that the effect of the Pakistani arrests of Abdul Ghani Baradar, and a dozen or so other senior Taliban figures in recent weeks has been to set back the prospects of a dialogue and that Pakistan must have known its actions would have that effect.KE: Of course I met Taliban leaders and of course I met Taliban leaders during the time I was in Afghanistan. Anything else for me would have been unthinkable, given the emphasis I was placing ON it myself and the mandate that we have. And remember, also and I am a Norwegian and Norwegians always believe in an engagement policy. Q: What's significant about any meetings is just how senior, how authoritative and the representatives are. Did you meet members of what is called the Quetta Shura and which is one of the main decision bodies for the Taliban leadership? KE: I believe I can say yes. That is the case. We met senior people in the Taliban leadership and we also met people who have the authority of the Quetta Shura to engage in that kind of discussion. Q: Of course when they call it the Quetta Shura it's named after the city in Pakistan. The Pakistanis deny the existence of a Quetta Shura, but it's largely believed to be the decision-making body under the authority of Mullah Omar and the spiritual leader of the Taliban. Did he know about these talks? KE: I find it unthinkable that such contact would take place without his knowledge and also with his acceptance. Q: When was your first contact? First by letter? KE: The first contact was probably spring last year. Then, of course, you moved into the election process and whe With the interview of BBC, as for original United Nations mission head, the Taliban leader Pakistani recent times 逮. Peace with interview of BBC world service of [kaiaida] and melting [douse] which have been broken, attested copy prospectsThis of tonight

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• Pakistani president seeks FULL SCO membership
  http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6938892.html
  Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Thursday called for a FULL membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to strengthen Pakistan's engagement with the group for promoting peace and development in the region and the president's spokesman said. Talking to Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov and President Zardari said that Pakistan desires to have a FULL membership of SCO. Pakistan enjoys the status of an observer along with India and Iran and Mongolia in the organization. Uz… Group engagement for propelling the complete member who is called regional development peace according to the spokesman of organization, the Shanghai cooperation and the president of the Pakistani strengthening mechanism (SCO) as for the president, you speak Pakistani president [ashihuarizarudari] Thursday, as for [uzubekisutanurajimiruzarudari] of Norov Minister of Foreign Affairs, as for Pakistan, you expressed that the fact that it has the complete member ship of SCO is desired

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• It's over: Clarke and Bingle call OFF marriage plans
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10631803&ref=rss
  SYDNEY - Australia cricket vice captain Michael Clarke has ended his engagement to model Lara Bingle and ending nearly a week of speculation about their relationship. A public relations firm representing Clarke said yesterday that… Sydney - the cricket secondary captain Michael Clarke LARA of Australia to cut, in the model of bobbed hair, your own relationship. You display, A PR company Clarke the guess that almost 1 weekly end engagement ends according to the day when,…

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• World Bank approves 3.75 billion dollar loan to support South Africa's energy security plans
  http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90856/6945429.html
  The World Bank ON Thursday approved a 3.75 billion dollar loan to help South Africa achieve a reliable electricity supply while also financing some of the biggest solar and wind POWER plants in the developing world. The loan the World Bank's first major lending engagement with South Africa since the fall of apartheid 16 years ago aims to benefit the poor directly and through jobs created as the economy bounces back from the global financial crisis and through additional POWER capacity to expand… As for worldwide bank on the 16th this. Although while, the largest solar array of development of approval 3750000000 dollar and financing of the wind force generation of electricity plant Africa achieving the portion of fund it does also the electric power supply whose reliability is high, the south which is useful

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• Why equality matters to us | Aaron Goldstein
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/24/civil-partnerships-judaism
  Liberal Judaism looks forward to celebrating civil partnerships under its roofs. We hope that other religions follow suitIn 2005, the rabbinic conference of Liberal Judaism published Covenant of Love, a service of commitment for same-sex couples and in doing so became the first religious movement in the country to produce official liturgy for this purpose. The same-sex commitment ceremony affirms the importance and holiness of marriage and Jewish family life. We remain steadfastly committed to the justice of civil partnerships and we see this as an extension of our belief that all are equal and created b'tselem Elohim - in the image of God. Our rabbis have long acknowledged that modern ethical, psychological and scientific insight demands a change in traditional attitudes to same-sex relationships, and have welcomed lesbians and gay men as members of its congregations and as teachers and as rabbis. We truly celebrate this inclusion and with it the enrichment that it brings to our community. Liberal Judaism's engagement in such ceremonies is not forced ON our rabbis or congregations. Our rabbis have simply created the possibility for an affirmation of the sanctity of a loving and committed same-sex relationship within the bounds of Judaism. Neither do we seek to enforce our beliefs and practices ON any other religious denomination and Jewish or otherwise. However, we have seen that our courage in making such blessings possible has emboldened other religious movements and individuals to follow suit and albeit timidly at times. Likewise, the amendment to the equality Bill, proposed by Lord Alli and does not seek to force any organisation or individual to do anything in respect of civil partnerships. It merely allows those who wish to do so to open the doors - literally - to their house In order liberal Judea to celebrate the partnership of the citizen who advances, it is visible under that roof

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• South African-China relations based on mutually beneficial partnership: South African FM
  http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6903535.html
  South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said Thursday that the relationship between South Africa and China is based ON mutually beneficial engagement and partnership. Mashabane is paying an official visit to China from Feb. 24 to 27 at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. She met with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and had talks with Yang early Thursday. Mashabane said at a press conference in Beijing that she had succe… As for Republic of South Africa minister of state international interchange and Mashabane Thursday of cooperation Maite Nkoana, cooperating relationship between south Africa and China with reciprocal participation

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• Letters: Tourism is essential to Africa's economy
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/jan/13/africa-tourism-economy-togo-angola
  Your article (Africa needs more than latter-day Livingstones and 3 January) ignored the excellent work being conducted by Abta tour operators to ensure that their activities ensure fair and equitable benefits for local people. It is untrue that these activities merely line the pockets of tour operators and destination governments. We work with our members specifically in the area of responsible tourism and which has come ON in leaps and bounds. Tour operators and tourism in Africa create jobs, preserve biodiversity and culture by giving it an economic value and enhance local infrastructure. The benefits reach far beyond the game reserves and national parks. Almost every excursion programme in Africa now ensures that beneficial linkages are created into the local community and economy. If the above developments of the industry and consumer were mirrored by travel writers and we would be able to encourage greater participation in community engagement and benefit projects by visitors to countries all around the globe. Nicola WhiteAbta/FTO (Federation of Tour Operators)• Your article rightly highlights that more of the income from tourism needs to get to local people. But it fails to emphasise just how vital tourism is to the economy of many of Africa's poorest countries. Tourism brings much-needed income and employment and, unlike most other industries and it has the potential to benefit people in rural areas simply because of where it takes place. Done well, it can conserve endangered species and their habitats by raising awareness of just how special these animals and places are and while also providing an economic alternative to hunting. That's why the Travel Foundation is working with many travel companies. For example and in Kenya we have supported projects that enable Masai villag You the article (from Africa latter compared to January 3rd), the excellent work disregard the activity fairness and equity of the people of local end the profit in order to guarantee guaranty, has the necessity to be executed day [rivuingusuton], with the Abta tour operator,

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• EU: Trilateral relationship between UN-AU-EU in making
  http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90856/6868916.html
  The European Union (EU) ON Wednesday reaffirmed its strong engagement with the United Nations, particularly in Africa where a trilateral relationship between the UN and African Union (AU) and EU is already in the making to enhance regional cooperation. The statement came as the acting head of EU delegation, Pedro Serrano and spoke to an open Security Council debate ON the cooperation between the United Nations and regional and sub-regional organizations in maintaining international peace and s… As for the European Union (EU) Wednesday, in especially Africa, United Nations, as for African combination (AU) and EU already, while having strengthened the regional cooperation of intention, the powerful participation of United Nations which has belonged as a statement related to between Mikuni as for delegation of reconfirmation EU, as for [pedoroserano] long vicarious execution, cooperation between United Nations and area and sub, the regional agency, when, maintaining international peace opening, that you heard story in argument of the security council, s…

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• Obama's Yemeni odyssey targets China
  http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LA09Ak02.html
  The intervention of the United States in Yemen - in whatever form it takes - is not simply a matter of hunting down al-Qaeda. The focus ON this strategic country, along with engagement with Somalia and Kenya and is a manifestation of the increasingly cozy three-way US-Israel-India alliance that is the emphatic counter to China's surge. - M K Bhadrakumar (Jan 8, '10) In Yemen the intervention of the United States of America - whatever catching, form - hunting simply problem is not [arukaida

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• Six foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan
  http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6865711.html
  Six foreign soldiers were killed in the conflict-ridden Afghanistan ON a single day Monday and according to press releases issued by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Three American soldiers were killed Monday afternoon in an engagement with enemy forces in the restive southern region of Afghanistan and ISAF said in a statement. In another firing incident in eastern Afghanistan and one ISAF service member was killed and another died of his wounds. The si… Afghanistan which with dispute of six foreign troops suffers from the death Monday of 1 days with release, pushes the key which is issued by North Atlantic Treaty Organization, when it depends, the international public order support echelon of main leadership (ISAF) the United States 3. With combat with the enemy of Monday afternoon [so] [wa] [so] me of death Afghanistan it is southern area, you have expressed in the declaration of ISAF

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