When Manuela Saenz was last by Simon Bolivar's side, it was almost 180 years ago. Now, under the direction of the government of Hugo Chavez, she is at least in some form alongside him once more. Critics say the entire event is a farce. They say the symbolic remains of Manuelita Saenz, a little more than a box of Peruvian earth, intended to whip up nationalist sentiment in an election year.
A new campaign is
under way
to save the legacy of one of Britain's greatest filmmakers. Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Hollywood classics, such as Psycho and Vertigo, made a number of silent films early in his career, which Britain's National Films Institute is now trying to restore with funding from the public. The Institute hopes to return nine of Hitchcock's early masterpieces to their original 1920s' condition.
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中东特使托尼·布莱尔(Tony Blair)告诉BBC,他相信,五月末以色列袭击救援船队的行为引发的国际愤怒迫使以色列加速缓解对加沙地带的封锁。以色列已经解除了对所有消费物品的限制。布莱尔表示,这是重大的政策变化,将改善加沙人民的生活。
“很明显,从只有几种物品允许进入加沙地带的名单变为几种禁止进入该地区的物品名单是一个重大变化。这将使能够进入加沙地带的物品从只有一百多种增加到数千种。所以,很明显,这是很大的变化,将对加沙人民的生活产生重大的影响。”