| Alberta green plan puts PM 'on the spot'
Find a way to make it clean and sell it to us. Also look for it to come on the west coast and in the arctic. Its coming because liberal or conservative they both like having balanced budgets.
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The once and future Malang
A few years ago, when I asked him if he had managed to keep any of his works during that period – with a view towards organizing an exhibition (my "outlet" from writing turned out to be curating) – he promptly called for a meeting where he revealed to me and my curating partner Gik Kasilag precious relics from his baul, including original comic strips he had drawn back in the 1950s of his comic strip, Kosme the Cop, Retired, that had yellowed with age; a piece of lawanit board dated 1957 showing his early attempts to become a full-fledged painter; and anthologies of his cartoons like Kosme the Cop, Retired and Chain-Gang Charlie. Influenced by American cartoonists, he also showed us his collection of first-edition Mad magazines and superhero comics, as well as some local komiks titles – each carefully wrapped in a plastic bag.
AP Top News at 4:57 p.m. EST
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday that his landslide win in South Carolina's presidential primary marks a turn in political history, showing that a black candidate can appeal to voters of all colors and in all regions. The Illinois senator told a raucous crowd of more than 9,000 here that his big victory Saturday disproved the old notion "that if you get black votes, you can't get white votes," and vice versa.
`No Country' Wins Key SAG Prizes
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "No Country for Old Men" emerged as the Oscars favorite Sunday by taking top honors for overall cast along with Javier Bardem's supporting-actor prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the lone gathering of A-list stars in an awards season thus far hobbled by the writers strike.
Alan Johnson donations row: Q&A
As Health Secretary Alan Johnson is the third Cabinet senior minister to become engulfed in a row over donations to Labour's deputy leadership campaigns, the Daily Telegraph outlines the key questions at the heart of the latest scandal. Timeline of Alan Johnson donations rowWhat are the accusations? .
Artist's work gets fab treatment
Shannon will be staying at the hotel, though she's not sure which room she'll get. She'd love one of the suites, she says, but by that time, any room with a bed will be fine by her. STORY CHAT ON THE WEB: Visit www.app.com and click on this story to discuss Shannon's Beatles artwork. .
The representation of Kurdish identity and culture in the films of ...
“…Their history is a history of exodus. It is a history of people always on the move. In this sense they have something in common with the cinema, which is the art of movement." (Bahman Ghobadi) Bahman Ghobadi, a Kurdish-Iranian director, has directed three feature films; A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) Marooned in Iraq (2003) and Turtles Can Fly (2005) Ghobadi appeared on the international arena when his first feature, A Time for Drunken Horses, won the Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. In his films Ghobadi reflects the plight of Kurdish people in a neo-realist type style. The Kurds, in Ghobadi's films, are portrayed as of a distinct ethnicity whose “country" is divided by borders. In Ghobadi's films the Kurds are a people who are restricted by the geography and harsh climate of Kurdistan.
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