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Foreign-language Oscar nominees portray true grittiness
In 2008, the committee that oversees the Oscars' foreign-language film category came under withering criticism for avoiding risky movies. Romania's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," a frank account of a young girl's illegal abortion, wasn't nominated, nor...Tags: The White Ribbon (movie), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Mark Johnson, Waltz with Bashir (movie), Lawyers
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Sofia Cosma dies at 96; concert pianist and prison camp survivor
Sofia Cosma, a concert pianist who defied long odds to rebuild her career after seven years in Soviet prison camps and later established herself as a performer and teacher in Southern California, died of natural causes Feb. 12 at a nursing home in Oxnard,...Tags: Latvia, Germany, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Nazi Party
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Traveling abroad? For information, check with the country's tourist office
For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is through their website only. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-...Tags: Vietnam, Slovakia, South Africa, Australia, Chile
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Aug. 30, 1940
The Daily MirrorTom Treanor, who died covering World War II for The Times, files a report on Catanzaro, Italy. Aug. 30, 1940: Hollywood After Dark: Ann Rutherford losing a set of artificial fingernails when an autografiend snatches at her hand as she leaves the... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Jan. 1, 1941
The Daily MirrorJan. 1, 1941: Reports are some drastic cutting must be done, else Hattie McDaniel will steal "The Great Lie" from Bette Davis, Jimmie Fidler says.... -
Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Feb. 12, 1941
The Daily MirrorFeb. 12, 1941: Tom Treanor, who was killed covering World War II for The Times, writes about his experiences in Romania. “Poor old beautiful, callous, hard-luck Rumania, a happy-go-lucky country trying not to be sad and finding it hard going,"...... -
Perspectives on the fall of the Berlin Wall
We make fun of Nostradamus and numerologists, but give editors an anniversary and the floodgates open. We're anniversary-ologists, as USA Today might say. Unfortunately, trying to take the pulse of what happened in Eastern Europe in 1989 is more complex...Tags: China, Corruption, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Breads
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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, July 2, 1940
The Daily MirrorHungarian troops at the Rumanian border. July 2, 1940: Jimmy (Date 'Em All) Stewart is a whiz on the accordion, Jimmie Fidler says.... -
ISRAEL: Air force helicopter crashes in Romania during drill
Babylon & BeyondAn Israeli military helicopter crashed in mountainous central Romania on Monday during an exercise with the Romanian air force. Seven people, six Israelis and a Romanian observer, were on board. Romanian authorities said the bodies had been recovered; the... -
Maria Gulovich Liu dies at 87; helped American agents during WWII
Maria Gulovich Liu, who as a young schoolteacher in Slovakia during World War II joined the underground resistance as a courier and later helped a small group of American and British intelligence agents evade the German Army as they fled through the...Tags: Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, Death, Slovakia, Crime, Law and Justice
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Nicolae Plesita dies at 80; ruthless Romanian secret police chief
Associated PressGen. Nicolae Plesita, a die-hard communist and ruthless chief of the Securitate secret police who arranged shelter in Romania for terrorist Carlos the Jackal and was tried for the bombing of Radio Free Europe, has died. He was 80. Plesita died Monday in...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Terrorism, Death, Bombings, Radio
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The EU's ugly little challenge
COLUM MCCANN's new novel, "Zoli," will be published Tuesday by Random House.ON NEW YEAR'S day, the European Union swelled by another 28 million people. The inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria in the European fold is cause for celebration in the streets of Bucharest and the courtyards of Sofia. For two of Europe's poorer countries,...Tags: Politics, Slovakia, Bucharest (Romania), Crimes, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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