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A new internet tool lets you see countries cracking down on user-generated content like YouTube and MySpace. But it could also be a tool to help us see our country's own suppression.
Legendary choreographer dies (arts.guardian.co.uk)
French choreographer Maurice Béjart, considered one of the great figures in contemporary dance, died yesterday at the age of 80, a spokeswoman for Béjart Ballet Lausanne said.
Maurice Bejart, 80; innovative choreographer of modern ballet (latimes.com)
From age 14, he trained at the school of the Marseilles Opera Ballet where, he told The Times, he remembered being the only boy in a class of 25 to 30 girls. "It was not right," he said. "Life is a balance between men and women. If I push the boys [as a choreographer], it is because there still needs to be a reaction against the prejudice that it is not good for men to dance."
Jonathan Turley: How to punish a cyber-bully (latimes.com)
When Megan Meier logged on to MySpace a little over a year ago, she was seeking a new start with new friends. She'd had some hard times: She considered herself overweight, had been bullied in school and had low self-esteem.
After WWII, many Japanese soldiers refused to surrender and hid out
on Pacific Islands. When did the last Japanese soldier from WWII
finally surrender?
A: 1946
B: 1953
C: 1974
D: 1981
E: There are still several soldiers unaccounted for and are assumed still hiding.
Marian the Teacher was first, writing:
And she lived a full life by the time she died at 39.
Leo S was a close second, with:
Cleo died at 39. It was believed that she had allowed herself to be bitten by an asp (an Egytptian cobra). The Egyptian religion declared that death by snakebite would make one immortal.
Sandra in Bangor was third, but wrong -
cleopatra was 17
Alan J was fourth with a succinct:
Cleo died at the age of 39.
joe b also missed it -
I`ll say 31 at least she looked that old on HBO`s Rome.
mj missed it, too, with:
D, and that's all I'm gonna say about that.
Joe ("You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same.) was also correct with:
The answer being E: 39. I know I'm not even close to being first today, but I didn't turn on my computer until 4:00 pm. But what-the-heck, I'm addicted to this game already.
And, Sally P said:
Ah, Cleopatra, that well-known historical vixen, died at the ripe old age of XXXIX or, as you youngsters say nowadays, 39 (E)! Allegedly, she was bitten in the ass - no, wait, she was bitten by an asp - and it just killed her.
Thanks to Baron Dave* for today's and yesterday's question.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 12', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'Shark'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Football Night In America'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', followed by a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', then a FRESH'Brothers & Sisters'.
The CW here offers 'Father Knows Best', another 'Father Knows Best', 'Brady Bunch', another 'Brady Bunch', 'Leave It To Beaver', and another 'Leave It To Beaver'.
Faux has a FRESH'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY has 'That 70s Show', another 'That 70s Show', and the movie 'The Siege'.
AMC offers the movie 'Sister Act', followed by the movie 'Santa Claus: The Movie', then the movie 'A Christmas Carol' (George C. Scott version).
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 12 Army of Ghosts;
[1:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 8 They Keep Killing Suzie;
[2:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 9 Random Shoes;
[3:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 10 Out Of Time;
[4:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 11 Combat;
[5:00 PM] Torchwood - Ep 12 Captain Jack Harkness;
[6:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 4 Parent Hood;
[7:00 PM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[8:00 PM] Chariots of Fire;
[10:30 PM] Chariots of Fire;
[1:00 AM] The Real Queens of England;
[2:00 AM] Robin Hood - Ep 5 The Arrow and the Optic;
[3:00 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 13 Shropshire;
[3:30 AM] Changing Rooms - Ep. 14 Bournemouth;
[4:00 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 5 France 13;
[4:30 AM] Bargain Hunt - Ep. 6 MacClesfield 7;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 9 Posner;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 10 Ollier;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Coming To America', 'Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly', 'South Park', and another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man 2', followed by the movie 'Christmas With The Kranks', and 'Nip/Tuck'.
History has 'UFO Files', 'MonsterQuest', another 'MonsterQuest', and still another 'MonsterQuest'.
IFC -
[06:15 AM] Way Off Broadway;
[07:55 AM] Media Lab Results;
[08:05 AM] Camp;
[10:05 AM] House of D;
[11:50 AM] Marci X;
[01:20 PM] Way Off Broadway;
[03:00 PM] Camp;
[05:00 PM] House of D;
[06:45 PM] The Dancer Upstairs;
[09:00 PM] Once in the Life;
[11:00 PM] Never Die Alone;
[12:35 AM] The Glass Shield;
[02:30 AM] Once in the Life;
[04:20 AM] Never Die Alone;
[05:50 AM] Secrets & Lies. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Pitch Black', followed by the movie 'The Matrix'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Mickybo and Me;
[06:45 AM] Flower & Garnet;
[08:30 AM] In Short: Israel 1;
[09:30 AM] Pack Strap Swallow;
[11:00 AM] Wynton Marsalis + John Besh;
[12:00 PM] The Keys to the House;
[01:50 PM] Following;
[03:00 PM] Sports;
[03:35 PM] Before the Flood;
[04:45 PM] Sports;
[05:15 PM] Who Are You Polly Maggoo?;
[07:00 PM] Monsoon Wedding;
[09:00 PM] Paul Simon, Corinne Bailey Rae & Primal Scream;
[10:00 PM] A Good Woman;
[11:35 PM] The True History of The Traveling Wilburys;
[12:00 AM] Lady Vengeance;
[02:00 AM] Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance;
[04:05 AM] Darwin's Nightmare. (ALL TIMES EST)
U.S. choregrapher and dancer Bill T.Jones is seen in one of three performances of 'Walking the Line' at Le Louvre museum, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007 in Paris.
Photo by Michael Sawyer
Willie Nelson is looking to become dog's best friend. The country music star has filmed a television spot supporting an anti-dogfighting bill that is moving through the Georgia Legislature.
In the ad, Nelson looks into the camera while "Georgia on My Mind" plays in the background.
"Dogfighting is against the law in Georgia, but the laws are so weak, the beautiful state of Georgia has become a haven for dogfighters from around the country," he says.
The bill would make it a felony for anyone to sell, trade or transport dogs for the purpose of dogfighting.
The former US president Jimmy Carter Saturday proposed a compromise between Nepal's government and former Maoist rebels to break the deadlock in a stalled peace process here.
The former rebels, who ended a decade of civil war a year ago and took key government posts in a landmark peace deal, want the immediate abolition of the monarchy. They are also demanding full proportional voting contrary to a mixed first-past-the-post and proportional representation system previously agreed.
Carter told reporters at a hotel in Kathmandu that the interim Nepal parliament should vote for a Republic immediately and the outcome could be ratified by a new government following elections.
Carter also suggested that the present political stalemate could be ended by allotting "70 percent of the constituent assembly seats by proportional representation and 30 percent by first-past-the-post."
Swedish model and actress Victoria Silvstedt poses before the awards ceremony of the 7th Monte Carlo Comedy Film Festival in Monaco November 24, 2007.
Photo by Eric Gaillard
U2 stars Bono and The Edge showed up unannounced and played as a warmup act at a charity concert in London.
The show delighted the 250 people who had attended the fundraiser on Friday night for Mencap, a charity that campaigns for equal rights for children and adults with learning disabilities.
"Don't tell Larry (Mullen) and Adam (Clayton) we've done this," Bono joked about his other two band mates from the small stage at Union Chapel.
Bono and The Edge - performing as a warmup act for Biffy Clyro, a Scottish rock group - played four of their songs: "Stay," "Desire," "Angel Of Harlem" and "Wave Of Sorrow," a track written for their 1987 album "Joshua Tree."
Russian authorities arrested former world chess champion Garry Kasparov on Saturday and sentenced him to five days in prison after he helped lead a protest against President Vladimir Putin that ended in clashes with police.
Kasparov, one of President Vladimir Putin's harshest critics, was charged with organizing an unsanctioned procession of at least 1,500 people against Putin, chanting anti-government slogans and resisting arrest, court documents said. His assistant said he was beaten during the demonstration.
At the hastily organized trial, two police testified that they had been ordered before the rally to arrest Kasparov.
The Kremlin has mounted a major campaign to orchestrate a crushing victory for Putin's United Russia party in Dec. 2 parliamentary elections - perhaps to ensure that Putin can continue to rule Russia even after he steps down as president in May. The constitution prevents him from serving three consecutive terms.
A young Thai girl holds a kratong or floating lantern made of bread decorated with flowers, a candle and incense sticks before floating it in a pond during the Loy Kratong festival at the Dusit zoo in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007. The festival is held annually to worship and apologize to the Goddess of the waters.
Photo by Apichart Weerawong
CBS' and NBC's late-night shows will continue to air repeats the week after Thanksgiving as the Writers Guild of America and studio negotiators return to the bargaining table.
NBC is digging deep into the "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" vault with five vintage episodes featuring the first headliner appearances of five of today's biggest stars.
"Leno" will rerun a 1992 episode with Tom Hanks, a 1993 segment with Julia Roberts, a 2000 appearance by Matt Damon and 1995 episodes featuring Jennifer Aniston and Johnny Depp.
Linda Hogan has filed for divorce from her wrestler husband Hulk Hogan, a newspaper reported Friday.
Hulk Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, told the St. Petersburg Times that he had no idea his wife had filed for divorce. He was informed by a reporter that Pinellas County court records showed that the paperwork was submitted Tuesday.
"Thank you for the great information," he told the reporter.
"My wife has been in California for about three weeks. ... Holy smokes," Bollea later told the newspaper. "Wow, you just knocked the bottom out of me."
ABC's "Lost" star Daniel Dae Kim entered an initial plea of not guilty to a drunken driving charge Friday.
Kim, 39, who plays Jin-Soo Kwon on the TV show, was arrested Oct. 25 when a Honolulu police officer spotted him driving erratically.
His driver's license was revoked Nov. 16 for six months, said Ronald Sakata, chief adjudicator for the Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office.
"He made an apology to the state, the people of Hawaii and his fans," defense attorney Patrick McPherson said outside the courtroom. "He pleaded not guilty and requested a trial date." Kim did not appear with his attorney at the arraignment.
Canada's Dominic Lacasse sets a new world record during the German live TV show 'Guinness World Records - The greatest World Records' in Cologne, Germany, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. He held himself on a bar as a 'Human Flag' for 39 seconds.
Photo by Hermann J. Knippertz
A former beverage manager at the Hard Rock Hotel has sued Dennis Rodman, claiming the ex-NBA star assaulted her last year by rubbing against her body and slapping her on the buttocks.
In her federal lawsuit filed last week, Sara Robinson also accuses her former employer of retaliating against her after she complained about Rodman's behavior.
"As Robinson stepped around the bar, Rodman grabbed her, pulled her towards him and rubbed his body against hers," the lawsuit alleges. "Robinson tried to get free from Rodman's grasp at which time he assaulted her by reaching down and slapping her open-handed on the bottom."
The complaint, which seeks unspecified damages, claims that Robinson was fired after she filled out a voluntary statement detailing Rodman's actions in a subsequent incident at the same bar the next month in which he is also accused of causing a scene.
A column of the temple of Hera in the archeological site of ancient Olympia, as the burned hill of Kronos, is seen in the background, southern Greece, on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007. A group of Greek and international scientists visited the World Heritage site Saturday to deliver funds for reconstruction of the area, which was ravaged by the wildfires that destroyed vast tracts of forest in southern Greece in August and killed more than 65 people. Ancient Olympia survived virtually unscathed, but the surrounding countryside was burnt. A large replanting effort is under way ahead of March 25, when the flame-lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics.
Photo by Petros Giannakouris
Someone in Italy placed the winning bid of $3.8 million on Friday for an unpopulated, one-house Texas town auctioned online.
No one lives permanently in the 13-acre town of Albert, about 60 miles north of San Antonio, but the tavern created from the frame of the old general store is open on weekends.
The town also includes a pavilion, an 85-year-old dance hall, a tractor shed, a three-bedroom house, plus peach and pecan orchards.
The reserve price for the town was $2.5 million. Even if the deal doesn't go through, owner Bobby Cave said he has about five other prospective buyers genuinely interested in the town.
Australia's incoming Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking former diplomat, has pledged closer ties with key friends and allies after sweeping away 11 years of conservative rule under John Howard.
Rudd, 50, presented himself as a new generation leader by promising to pull around 500 frontline Australian troops out of Iraq and sign the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, further isolating Washington on both issues.
The surge to Labor left Howard battling to win even his own parliamentary seat, which he has held since 1974, putting him in danger of becoming the first prime minister since 1929 to lose his constituency.
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a baby macaque climbs on its mother's back at a zoo in Suzhou, in east China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007.
Photo by Wang Jianzhong
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