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CMC member
against quota
for women |
 SHEIKHA
AL JUFAIRI, who made history in 2003 when she won election to
the Central Municipal Council (CMC) from the Airport constituency,
the first woman in the GCC ever to win a municipal election,
is against reservation of seats for women in the CMC as demanded
by many. In an exclusive interview with Qatar Tribune, Sheikha
al Jufairi answered a number of... |
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|  |  | | Yemen´s ´Aborted´ Revolution |
 TOYemenis,
violence in the streets and threats of state collapse are nothing
new. Despite reports portraying the protests in Yemen as something
of a revolution, democratic change has little possibility of
success. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is essentially a figurehead;
whether he stays or goes, the regime of technocrats and thugs
he represents is unlikely. |
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GAZA WAR REPORT |
| WE have a new verb, "to Goldstone."
Its meaning: To make a finding, and then partially retract it
for uncertain motive. Etymology: the strange actions of a respected
South African Jewish jurist under intense pressure from Israel,
the US Congress and world Jewish groups. Richard Goldstone is
an author of the "Goldstone Report," an investigation
of Israel´s military campaign in Gaza... |
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with Nepal LESS than a year after Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio made an incognito visit to Nepal, guess who is here to continue Hollywood´s tryst with the land of the Himalayas? It´s actress Demi Moore. The 48-year-old star of movies like Ghost, Indecent Proposal.
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| | US kids busy
to a fault? |
 THE
subject of overscheduled children has
been on scientists´ radar for at least
a decade, said Andrea Mata, a doctoral
student at Kent State University whose
recent study on highly involved children
was scheduled for presentation at a
symposium in Montreal run by the Society
for Research in Child Development. "I
think it´s a hot topic right now," Mata
said. "There´s definitely a mix of viewpoints.
So I think a lot more research is needed
to find out what´s going on." The SRCD
symposium will examine which children
and adolescents become overscheduled,
what happens at high levels of extracurricular
involvement, and how factors such as
school grades and... |
| | Filmfest DC,
25 years outside
Hollywood´s orbit |
 STEP
out of Hollywood´s bubble, urged Tony
Gittens, who launched a film festival
here 25 years ago as an antidote to
commercial Tinseltown and watched it
grow into the US capital´s signature
screen celebration. While moviemakers
strut down the Cannes red carpet as
their media-hyped films become overnight
sensations, and distributors swarm Sundance
theatres to snag the next Precious,
Filmfest DC, which opened Thursday,
goes about its business of pleasuring
a diverse audience by screening highquality
independent world cinema. "To limit
your film-going diet to just the films
from Hollywood is not healthy," Gittens
said shortly ahead of the festival´s... |
| | Indian animation needs to move
beyond mythology: Ranvir Shorey |
 INDIA
has a huge market for animation films
but the homegrown industry has to move
beyond mythological themes, says talented
actor Ranvir Shorey, who has just given
the voiceover for the Hindi version
of the 3D Hollywood film Rio. "India
has a huge market for animation films,
but is yet unexplored. Hollywood has
a festival out of every release of the
animation film that they do. It´s like
a carnival for the grown-ups and for
the kids," Ranvir said. "I don´t think
we have managed that in the Indian film
industry as yet," he added. The actor
of films as diverse as Khosla Ka Ghosla
and Singh is Kinng is certain that homegrown
animation would. |
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