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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ tops Gotham Awards
This film image released by CBS FIlms shows Oscar Isaac in a scene from “Inside Llewyn Davis.”
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Indonesian activists wear masks while protesting against the World Trade Organization meeting in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. Indonesia is hosting the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference from Dec. 3 - 6.
The Coen brothers’ folk music tale “Inside Llewyn Davis” has won best film at the 23rd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York.
The win Monday night at a glitzy ceremony was an upset. The slavery epic “12 Years a Slave” is widely considered an Oscar front-runner and had a leading three Gotham nominations but didn’t take any awards. Best actor went to Matthew McConaughey for his performance in the HIV drama “Dallas Buyer’s Club.” Brie Lar-
sen took best actress for her performance in the foster care drama “Short Term 12.” Steve Buscemi presented a posthumous tribute to his “Sopranos” co-star James Gandolfini. The Gotham awards are presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, an advocacy group for independent filmmakers. Awards are selected by juries.
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Speed factor killed ‘Fast and Furious’ star Walker Speed played a role in the onecar crash that killed “The Fast and the Furious” actor Paul Walker in Southern California on Saturday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Walker, 40, was a passenger in the red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT that crashed into a utility pole and burst into flames in the city of Santa Clarita on Saturday afternoon. “Speed was a factor in the solo vehicle collision,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
Deputy Mark Pope said the accident was under investigation and he did not know how fast the car was going. The Los Angeles Times identified the driver as Roger Rodas, 38, a friend of Walker’s who owned Always Evolving, an auto dealership and racing services company. The sheriff’s department would not confirm that. The company could not be reached for comment on Sunday. In a message on its Facebook page,
the company posted a message that said, “Thank you all for your condolences and prayers while we mourn the loss of our loved ones.” The blond-haired, blue-eyed Walker was in five of the six “The Fast and the Furious” films about illegal street racing and heists. A seventh installment was in development, according to Universal, the studio behind the franchise. Walker played law enforcement official Brian O’Conner in the movie series.
WTO’s global role hangs in the balance at Bali summit AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati
Agence France-Presse
NUSA DUA - The WTO launches a frantic drive on Tuesday to salvage its floundering efforts to liberalise global trade at a summit laced with potential make-or-break implications for the body’s global influence.
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A girl places flowers at the scene of the car crash where actor Paul Walker was killed in the Santa Clarita area of Los Angeles December 1, 2013.
WTO chief Roberto Azevedo implored trade ministers to reach a modest agreement on key trade issues on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, in hopes it will keep alive a stumbling 12-year-old effort to slash international trade barriers. “It is there for the taking. It is a matter of political will,” Azevedo
said during an appearance ahead of the four-day summit’s opening at 3 p.m. (0700 GMT). In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Azevedo called the 159-member group’s gathering “the most important World Trade Organisation meeting in years”. “At stake is not only a package
of measures to boost the global economy... but also the role of the WTO and the multilateral trading system in global economic governance,” he said in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. In 2001, the WTO launched the “Doha Round” of talks in Qatar, seeking to overhaul the world trading system by setting a global framework of rules and tearing down barriers. Various estimates say it could create tens of millions of jobs and perhaps $1 trillion in new economic activity. But protectionist disputes be-
tween rich and poor countries -- as well as the WTO’s insistence that any accord be unanimous -- has made a deal elusive. Retreating for now from Doha’s lofty aims, the WTO has instead put forward a limited “Bali package” on specific issues. Azevedo hopes an agreement on that package can keep the Doha Round on life-support for a later push. But the Bali measures have hit snags, most notably India’s insistence that it be allowed to offer subsidies to its millions of poor farmers
to keep food prices down. “We can no longer allow the interests of our farmers to be compromised at the altar of mercantilist ambitions of the rich,” Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, who leads India’s delegation, was quoted as saying on Monday by Indian media. Many now see the troubled WTO effort as threatened by alternative regional pacts between major trading nations including the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pushed by Washington.
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