May 9th, 2008 · An underground nuclear submarine base on China's Hainan Island is drawing scrutiny from the United States and India. According to satellite imagery on the Web sites of Jane's Intelligence Review and the Federation of American Scientists, the base has a sea entrance wide enough to allow submarines to enter the underground facilities. The photograph reveals what appears to be a ballistic missile submarine moored to one of the piers outside.
Keywords: China · United States · nuclear · Sea · India · satellite · Entrance · missile · Photographs · submarine · imagery · Jane
Jan 18th, 2008 · Andrew Davies is the go-to screenwriter for adapting classic literature for television and the movies. He adapts Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility as PBS prepares to air The Complete Jane Austen.
Keywords: television · movies · novel · Literature · Austen · screenwriter · PBS · Jane · Andrew Davies · Northanger Abbey · The Complete Austen
Sep 22nd, 2007 · Robin Swicord is the writer and director of the new film The Jane Austin Book Club. She talks about being one of a relatively few female directors in Hollywood -- and what it's like to make the transition from screenwriter to director.
Keywords: director · transit · Writer · Hollywood · Austen · screenwriter · Jane · Robin Swicord · The Austin Book Club
Aug 3rd, 2007 · The dialogue in this fanciful "biography" certainly isn't up to the beloved novelist's standard, but the performances do sparkle and the look is Merchant Ivory-lush -- so there's plenty of pleasure to be had.
Keywords: Beloved · novelist · Pleasure · sparkling · Biography · Austen · fanciful · Merchant Ivory · Jane
May 28th, 2007 · Congress recently passed the latest supplemental funding bill for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Caitlin Harrington, a staff reporter for Jane's Defense Weekly, and Julianne Malveaux, author and economist, talk about exactly where that money's going, and where it came from.
Keywords: Afghanistan · Congress · Iraq · money · economist · Bill · Julianne Malveaux · Jane · Defense Weekly · Caitlin Harrington
Apr 19th, 2007 · Christie's is putting up for sale the only known oil painting of Jane Austen. The portrait could fetch up to $800,000 at auction, but some skeptics say the young girl in the painting is just too pretty to be the author.
Keywords: mysteries · auction · portrait · Austen · Christie · skeptics · Jane
Feb 14th, 2007 · Pulitzer-winning novelist Jane Smiley's latest book, Ten Days in the Hills, is a satirical portrait of an Oscar-winning director, his political-activist lover, his ex-wife and her lover. The book explores the culture of Hollywood against the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Keywords: satirical · Iraq · director · politics · Activist · invasion · culture · Oscar · wife · novelist · Hollywood · lovers
Jan 16th, 2007 · Jane Bolin was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first black woman to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first black female judge in the United States. Bolin died Jan. 8 at the age of 98.
Keywords: United States · legal · Pioneer · graduate · Yale Law School · Jane · Bolin · New York City Bar Association
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