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Tribeca Film Festival Bows Amid Turbulent Times Felt Off Screen And Depicted On Screen
NEW YORK (AP) - The eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival bows amid a turbulent time for movies, which is evident at this year's festival both on screen and off. The epicenter of the festival, co-founded by Robert De Niro to help revive Lower Manhattan...Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Festive Events, Minority Groups, Butch Cassidy, In the Loop (movie)
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Bush criticizes Iran in pro-democracy speech
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPresident Bush on Sunday called Iran "the world's leading state sponsor of terror" and sought to shore up opposition to the government in Tehran throughout the Middle East. But even as he criticized Iranian leaders, saying they were seeking to repress...Tags: Government, Justice and Rights, Travel, Los Angeles Times, Defense
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Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Festival approaching
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWith branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums, a performing-arts center designed by Zaha Hadid and the Maritime Museum by Tadao Ando opening on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi in the next decade, the Persian Gulf capital of the United Arab Emirates...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Willem-Alexander
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Frank Gehry considers an accomplished past and uncertain future
Architecture CriticFrank Gehry, who turned 80 on Saturday, is the most famous architect in the world by a healthy margin. He is also, arguably, the most significant talent in American architecture since Frank Lloyd Wright. His firm, Gehry Partners, has streamlined a process...Tags: Architecture, Culture, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Guggenheim Museum
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Developing an artistic flair in the United Arab Emirates
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT'S A quiet Sunday morning in this city of cacophonous ambition. Construction has yet to hit a deafening pitch, and traffic is still moving. But, as the temperature rises, all sorts of art activity bubbles up in the historic Bastakiya district, a low-...Tags: Culture, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Los Angeles Times, Bodies of Water, United Arab Emirates
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Abu Dhabi: The richest city on Earth
Chicago Tribune ReporterIf Dubai and Abu Dhabi were '50s film idols, Dubai would be Marilyn Monroe. Abu Dhabi would be Grace Kelly. Dubai is the sizzle. Abu Dhabi is the steak. Dubai is the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates that gets all the attention. Some 60 miles...Tags: Marilyn Monroe, Chicago Tribune, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Natural Resources, Travel
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Help Iran go nuclear
Should the United States sell advanced civilian nuclear reactors to a Middle East country that doesn't seem to need them? A country that can keep pumping oil for the next 100 years, that has a pipeline to a vast natural gas field next door and enough...Tags: France, Defense, United Arab Emirates, White House, Iran
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U.S. fights off Iraqi attacks
U.S. forces Tuesday began closing their pincers on Baghdad, repelling hundreds of counterattacking Iraqis on the western side of the city and capturing a military airport on the east, all the while calling in bombs and artillery fire on the battered...Tags: Government, Journalism, Death, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Defense
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Emirates looked other way while al-Qaida funds flowed
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersUntil Sept. 11, Osama bin Laden's terrorists in Afghanistan used the Persian Gulf crossroads of the United Arab Emirates as their lifeline to the outside world. Poor oversight in the loose federation of seven tiny sheikdoms allowed Bin Laden's al-Qaida...Tags: Central Bank, Los Angeles Times, Finance, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Local Government
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Tape shows exhausted Saddam
The Associated PressIn what is purported to be his last known wartime speech -- a video never before televised -- Saddam Hussein appears exhausted, at times confused and seemingly resigned to defeat, but he tells Iraqis that God, somehow, will help them expel the American-...Tags: Iraq, Entertainment, Television, Saddam Hussein, Satellite Technology
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