Mia Farrow

A Scathing Look at "Celebrity"

Colleen Perry | Posted 11.07.2008 | Style

Read More: Woody Allen, Fame, International Adoption, Mia Farrow, Children, Joaquin Phoenix, Raising Children, Celebrity Mothers, Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Celebrity, Celebrity Kids, Celebrities, Style News
Colleen Perry

It dawned on me: this is why celebrities have trouble giving up "celebrity." They're so accustomed to someone hanging on their every word; ready to fulfill every wish and desire.

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Now Sudan Is Attacking Refugee Camps

Mia Farrow | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

How can such brazen cruelty be inflicted upon our fellow human beings? How is it that a military assault on displaced civilians in a refugee camp creates barely a ripple in the news cycle?

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More Tragedy, More Inaction

Mia Farrow | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kalma Camp, Darfur, Mia Farrow, Darfur Genocide, Sudan, Celebrities Talk Politics, Politics News
Mia Farrow

The United Nations expresses 'concern' for the horrific acts perpetrated by the Sudanese government, but for more than five years those hollow words have done little to help the people of Darfur.

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Practicing Paper Tigerism: Threatening to Boycott Russia's 2014 Sochi Olympics

Monroe Price | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jimmy Carter, Robert Gates, Mia Farrow, Georgia, Sochi, Boycott, Russia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Vladamir Putin, Peter Ueberroth, Ted Turner, Olympics, Movies, Politics News
Monroe Price

The lights are about to go out on Beijing 2008, and -- guess what -- there's already talk of a Georgia-related U.S.-organized boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

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Mia Farrow To Air "Darfur Olympics"

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 08.07.2008 | Entertainment

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KHARTOUM, Sudan — As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actress activist Mia Farrow is Web-casting her own "Darfur Olympics" from a refugee camp ...

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Farrow's Darfur Olympics & Our Olympic Shame

Christopher J. Finlay | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Darfur, Mia Farrow Darfur, Mia Farrow, China Darfur, Beijing Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Olympics Boycott, Olympics, Politics News
Christopher J. Finlay

In highlighting the West's capricious appetite for stories of genocide in Africa and political and religious intolerance and killings in Asia, the Olympics have inadvertently revealed our own moral bankruptcy.

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Mia Farrow: Nations Should Protest China At Olympics

AP | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

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BANGKOK, Thailand — Mia Farrow said Friday the world should use next month's Olympic Games as a platform to demand that China end its support fo...

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Why Bush Should Not Attend the Beijing Opening Ceremonies

Mia and Ronan Farrow | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Darfur, Mia Farrow, George Bush Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Sudan, Opening Ceremonies, Politics News
Mia and Ronan Farrow

A presidential boycott of the opening ceremonies in Beijing might have proved to be a powerful additional point of leverage with an otherwise intractable regime.

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More Tragic Failures in Darfur

Mia Farrow | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

The UN itself has expressed the fear that in its present form the peacekeeping operation will scarcely be able to protect itself, much less the people of Darfur.

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My Photos of Darfur, Eastern Chad, and the Central African Republic

Mia Farrow | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

I hope the faces in these photographs will convey the level of suffering being inflicted upon innocent men, women and children and will inspire others to act as they have inspired me.

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My Address to the United Nations Security Council

Mia Farrow | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

History will long remember that the UN Security Council has, for five years, failed in the task you have been charged with -- protecting a defenseless population.

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Family of Mia Farrow's Nephew Still Awaits Truth on His Death in Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

Unlike most of the cases of mysterious non-hostile deaths that I have chronicled, this one will likely continue to grab some national attention.

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Thoughts on Yesterday's Rebel Attempt to Topple Khartoum

Mia Farrow | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sudan, Jem, Chad, Darfur, Mia Farrow, Politics News
Mia Farrow

When the best hope for peace in Darfur ultimately lies at a conference table, it is dispiriting but not surprising that government officials are refusing to negotiate with the rebel group JEM.

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Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lottie Kimbrough, Trios Los Panchos, Krzysztof Komeda, Music, Phil Ramone, Danielle Evin, The Black Keys, Dog Ears, White Denim, Mia Farrow, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week, recommendations for songs by The Black Keys, Krzysztof Komeda/Mia Farrow, Jamie Lidell, Lottie Kimbrough, White Denim, and Trio Los Panchos.

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The Darfur War Crimes Test

Mia Farrow | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Genocide, Sudan, UN Securtiy Council, Refugees, Icc, Darfur, Mia Farrow Darfur, Mia Farrow, Hague, Politics News
Mia Farrow

This week marks a grim and largely unnoticed anniversary. In April 2007, The ICC issued arrest warrants for two men involved in the massive, ongoing atrocities in Darfur, who have yet to be prosecuted.

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The Dalai Lama, China's "Main Melody" and the Modernizing Propaganda State

Monroe Price | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Mia Farrow, Dalai Lama, Barbara Boxer, Olympics, Tibet, Darfur, Jack Cafferty, John Negroponte, China, Media News
Monroe Price

China has taken steps to make it more costly, at least symbolically, to attack its narrative of strength, efficiency and progress at becoming a "normal" world power.

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Never Again: How Obscenely Disingenuous Those Fine Words Sound Today

Mia Farrow | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

There is now one thing that China holds more dear than it's unfettered access to Sudanese oil: their successful staging of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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(Mis)judgement: Spielberg And The Beijing Olympics

Louise Blouin | Posted 02.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Louise Blouin

I disagree with Spielberg for singling out China as the only culprit in the Darfur conflict and for the strong tactics that he has used. This approach is both unfair and unsound.

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Business, China and Darfur

Marc Gunther | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business

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Marc Gunther

Fidelity mutual fund investors, McDonald's customers, employees of Kodak and Johnson & Johnson -- all will soon have the opportunity to urge those companies to speak out against the ongoing genocide in Darfur.

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Cambodian Police Block Mia Farrow

AP | KER MUNTHIT | Posted 01.20.2008 | Entertainment

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian police blocked Mia Farrow from holding a genocide memorial ceremony Sunday at a Khmer Rouge prison, at one poin...

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A Place of Magnificent Happiness

Mia Farrow | Posted 11.15.2007 | Living

Read More: The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, Mia Farrow, Ursula LeGuin, Happiness, A Place of Happiness, Omelas, Living News
Mia Farrow

Imagine a place, outside of history or geography, where people of all ages enjoy a magnificent happiness -- a rich, sustained, even ecstatic happiness.

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Our Brothers and Sisters in Darfur Have Suffered Long Enough

Mia Farrow | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

The unwavering support of China gives the genocidal Khartoum regime confidence that it can do whatever it chooses. Khartoum and China know no shame.

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All that China has Offered Darfur is PR

Mia Farrow | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

Despite Steven Spielberg's excellent letter to Chinese President Hu last April, he continues as artistic director of the Olympic games and in so doing lends China his own moral authority.

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Wake Up, Jimmy. You're Old Enough to Know Better

Mia Farrow | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics

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Mia Farrow

Carter's moral authority makes his current statements about the Khartoum cabal all the more disappointing, offensive, arrogant and unconscionably ignorant.

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