Firoozeh Dumas: 'Laughing Without an Accent'
Jun 21st, 2008 · Writer Firoozeh Dumas talks about her new memoir, Laughing Without an Accent. It's a collection of humorous essays about her life as the daughter of Iranian immigrants.
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Marlene Dumas Pushes 'Grave' Limits
Jun 20th, 2008 · Dumas became the highest paid living female artist in 2005 when one of her paintings sold at auction for $3.4 million. She gets introspective about being blonde and painting another famous blonde, Marilyn Monroe, post-autopsy.
U.S., Russian Panels Meet Openly for the First Time
Jun 21st, 2007 · Legislators from the Russian parliament, the Duma, and the U.S. Congress meet Thursday in the first open meeting between foreign affairs committees of the two institutions. It will be the third in the series of meetings between the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Affairs of the Duma, but it's the first to be attended by the media and the public. The gathering comes as a dispute over U.S. plans to extend its missile defense system to Eastern Europe have brought U.S.-Russian relations to a new low.
'Duma': A Boy and a Cheetah
Oct 3rd, 2005 · Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Carroll Ballard's movie Duma about a boy and a cheetah. He says the film has the same magical qualities as Ballard's earlier films, Fly Away Home and The Black Stallion.
Russians in Backlash Against Foreign Adoption
Jun 14th, 2005 · The removal in Russia of a child recently adopted by an American couple has sparked discontent over international adoptions. Members of the Duma recently decried the adoptions, accusing foreigners of "stealing" children and worsening a demographic crisis. The U.S. embassy issued a stern statement saying that police conduct in the case was possibly illegal. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.
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