The first is about India and Pakistan. For the first time in a long time, a Pakistani produced film is being shown commercially in India and it's making big news. Pakistanis have always been big on Bollywood but this could be an important step in improving our relations with our neighbors. It is interesting to note the power of the arts in bringing people together. Just last month, the New York Philharmonic went to North Korea and also helped the US build a new bridge with an enemy nation... I wanna see this movie!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/world/asia/16india.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=sloginJ.K. Rowling is in court apparently because some guy who was a big fan created a fan website and now wants to publish his own book. He wants to publish some kind of Harry Potter encyclopedia or something and she is arguing that this violates her copyrights and rights of authorship... For Harry Potter fans it will probably also excite you to know that she wants to publish her own encyclopedia with all sorts of details for the obsessed fan... http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1730629,00.html
Want pure materialism? Check these pictures out of 10 new gadgets that came out at the CES Show earlier this year... Definitely makes you awed of the way things are changing...and slightly greedy too... Warning: That 55" LCD may not seem so nice anymore! http://www.newsweek.com/id/86841
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