I can’t see yet how this arrangement will work in practice (probably it hasn’t been worked out in detail by the YouTube owners, either), but this announcement should certainly please the most creative video contributors to YouTube.
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Sundance Festival ’07: The Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking goes to Radu Jude’s “Lampa cu Caciula” (“The Tube with the Hat”)
See the full list of prizes for jury and audience awards, among which Radu Jude’s Romanian film “Lampa cu Caciula” (the Tube with the Hat). And see this (23 min long) film here – spoken in Romanian, with subtitles in English (you can watch all short films participating here).
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One has to look at this with the caveat that the subjects ‘interviewed’ in this clip are what one calls a ‘selected sample’ (there is really no subject who makes any sense), hence it is a matter of stretching the logic quite a lot to generalize anything to “Americans”, as a whole, from watching it.
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Quite a long essay of Paul Krugman on Milton Friedman, in the New York Review of Books. I must say I would only call “fascinating”, as Greg Mankiw does (with a shadow of irony, I’d like to hope; he couldn’t have read the entire article, otherwise), its first part, up to the 3rd section (part which is also well written and informative, I’d say, also for persons who did not have formal training in Economics).
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I’ve seen this Monty Python clip many times by now, but I am still not able to stop laughing when watching it. Obviously the first prize could only have gone to the girl with the biggest tits!
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