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Couscous (La Graine et Le Mulet)
Kechiche, like Fatih Akin, the Turkish-German film-maker, shows us how the lives of migrants and their children straddle cultures, and, like Akin’s Head-On, Couscous is passionate and earthy.
Toxic blocks
No-one said oil was clean. But Ecuador’s experience of extracting fossil fuels is about as bad as it gets, reports David Ransom.
John McCain
Presidential hopeful John McCain gets the treatment
Killer of Sheep
A beautifully composed episodic study of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, his family, friends and community.
Cyclone survival
Women in Orissa, India, have ways of dealing with calamity
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Leon Trotsky (1879-1940 )
Russian revolutionary
Stevie Smith (1902-71)
British poet
Nelson Mandela (1918- )
Powerful words from South Africa’s first black President
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
A speechmark on fascism
Elie Wiesel (born 1928)
A quote from his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French writer and philosopher
