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	Duma
		dumas differ from other lyrico-epic and historical poetry by their form and by the way in which they were performed.
		dumas were not sung, but were performed in recitative to the accompaniment of a
		dumas with the poetic forms that appeared in Ukraine in the 12th century, particularly with the
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/D/U/Duma.htm (676 words)

	Epic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, and one of the major forms of narrative literature.
		In the West, the Iliad, Odyssey, and the Nibelungenlied; and in the East, the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Shahnama are often cited as examples of the epic genre.
		World folk epics are those epics which are not just literary masterpieces but also an integral part of the world view of a people.
	www.clipart.teleactivities.com /poetry/epic_poetry.html (468 words)

	UBC Dictionary
		Bandurists or kobzars were wandering folk bards who originally composed and performed their own lyric-epic historical songs (duma) in the recitative style and later added songs of various other genres (religious and humorous songs, dance melodies) to their repertoires, which were passed on to their students.
		The dumas were based on the folk song, modified by the influence of the syllabic poetry produced in the schools of the 16th-17th century.
		Peretts described the dumas as 'a harmonious synthesis of cultural-individual creativity with folk creativity.' The dumas were first mentioned by the Polish historian S. Sarnicki, who, in his Annales under the year 1506, mentions that mournful songs - dumas - were composed in honor of two brothers who died during the Wallachian campaign.
	www.bandura.org /dictionary.htm (2296 words)

	Duma (2005): Reviews
		Duma, at its best, reminded me exactly why we loved movies as children: because they told stories like this, with images just as rhapsodically colorful and exciting.
		Duma is not a masterpiece, but its deficits recede into insignificance once you open yourself to the movie's mystery and visual splendor.
		Duma is a great movie for families.I think it was the best movie ever made!I'venever seen a movie like Duma before.It was a tearjerker,and heartbreaking movie.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/duma (795 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Duma
		The wonder is that Duma is a real cheetah (or at least one of several used in the filming), never a fluffy CGI effect.
		Duma was never released widely on multiplex screens across the country, as the studio ascertained it would not do incredible box office in today's climate of star-studded "hype machine" titles.
		Duma is easily one of the best all-ages movie I've seen in a long time, and there's nothing but some scary animal action to garner it a PG rating.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/duma.php (687 words)

	Duma
		Duma grows up fast to adult size, and Peter tells Xan that he must start thinking about the day that Duma will have to be returned to the wilderness, his natural habitat.
		The story line of Duma continues with a series of escalating adventures that pit this unlikely trio against the forces of nature in mountainous terrain, in rivers and rapids, and in the jungle.
		When Xan and Duma start their journey after running away from the authorities, there is a moment of uncertainty, as Xan is still wearing his school uniform complete with tie and fl leather shoes.
	www.chucksconnection.com /duma.html (1892 words)

	Cinema Crazed
		“Duma” is an epic story about a father and son whom discover a baby Cheetah on the side of the road one night in their homeland.
		After an incident at school, Xan’s mom wants to sell Duma to a wildlife reserve, but Xan is intent on bringing Duma back to its home land as he’d planned with his father, and so he sets out on his own.
		What’s most likable about “Duma” is that it teaches children about love, and loss, and inevitable separation while journeying with Xan who ventures across the desert, and jungle to get Duma where it belongs.
	www.cinema-crazed.com /duma.htm (621 words)

	Epic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons.
		Thirdly, epic poems always deal with persons and events that are considered to be historically real by the poet and their audience.
		The hero in an epic poem tends to follow a predictable cycle of events that is repeated in epics from every sort of culture.
	www.paleorama.com /Marvel-E/Epic.php (1377 words)

	Duma Movie Review - Duma Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		''Duma" is no different: Ballard gives us nature in all its vast, dangerous glory and then asks us to ponder where ''tame" ends and ''wild" begins, in ourselves and in the animals we think we know.
		''Duma" is too suspenseful for the youngest children, but for anyone older than 8 or 9, it evokes nothing less than awe at the harsh beauty of the natural world.
		Just as he's preparing to re-introduce Duma to the wild, the father dies of a heart attack (again, discreetly), and mother and son have to move to the city.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=6519 (677 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sleek, stunning 'Duma' is spot-on family fare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Duma means "cheetah" in Swahili, and this sweeping story of a boy and his beloved wild cat is being treated by distributors as if it were in Swahili, without subtitles.
		Warner Bros. has decided to show this poetically epic film by director Carroll Ballard (The Black Stallion) on only a few screens, under the assumption that if there are no special effects or animation, kids and their parents won't go see it.
		The film centers on Duma, a sleek cheetah who chirps instead of yowls, and Xan, the boy who loves him (Alexander Michaletos).
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2005-09-29-duma_x.htm (341 words)

	International - ONDCP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		DUMA is a pilot project which seeks to measure drug use amongst those people who have been charged with a criminal offence.
		Data from DUMA will be used to examine issues such as the relationship between drugs and property and violent crime, monitor patterns of drug use across time, and help assess the need for drug treatment amongst the offender population.
		EPIC is a multi-agency, round-the-clock electronic monitoring post on the U.S.-Mexican border that keeps tabs on drug-trafficking organizations and serves a national network of law enforcement agencies.
	www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov /international/resources.html (991 words)

	Free Speech
		The Russian measure, which could receive final approval in the Duma as early as this week, pitted Putin and his supporters against the members of Russia's nascent human rights community who decried the anti-extremism bill as a perilous expansion of police power.
		In November 2001, EPIC, the ACLU, and 14 legal scholars filed an amicus curiae brief, arguing that the ordinance implicates privacy, as well as the First Amendment rights of anonymity, expression, and freedom of association.
		EPIC is acting as co-counsel in the lawsuit.
	www.matrixmasters.com /blog/2002_06_01_archivespeech (2665 words)

	Pravda.RU State Duma on the edge of class struggle
		The so-called multi-unit agreement,' which is going to be reconsidered by the centrist factions of the Duma, was based on the fact that the number of the parliamentary positions distributed between the factions should be proportional to their value.
		It goes without saying that, all these years, chairmen of the State Duma have been elected from the largest faction of the parliament, and his first deputy was elected from the second largest faction.
		The so-called multi-unit agreement,' which is going to be reconsidered by the centrist factions of the Duma, was based on the fact that the number of the parliamentary positions distributed between the factions should be proportional to their value More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/04/03/27323.html (2147 words)

	Duma - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		The larger reality is that movies like "Duma" have been an endangered species for some time because marketing departments at the major studios simply aren't designed to release small movies.
		Ballard said Warners is looking to guarantee ancillary revenues for "Duma," adding that the film is going into L.A. because Warner Bros. needs the movie to play on 100 screens to fulfill an international TV sales agreement.
		After that, the "Duma" folks began screening the film for critics across the country, most of whom made remarks in their reviews about Warners burying the project.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=83646 (1930 words)

	Northwest Film Forum: The Films of Carroll Ballard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		DUMA tells the epic tale of an unbreakable friendship between a courageous young boy named Xan and a cheetah named Duma.
		DUMA is a family film that has it all: thrilling adventure footage, a tender coming-of-age story, and a searing message about man's relationship to the wild creatures that share our planet.
		Adapted from William Farley's beloved children's book, the film combines stunning cinematography, an epic plot, and brilliant acting as it tells the story of a young boy and an Arabian stallion who are shipwrecked together on a desert island.
	www.nwfilmforum.org /cinemas/ballard.php (679 words)

	Renseignements internationaux - Russia Country Commercial Guide: Political Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		These and other initiatives were designed to strengthen the power of the center and to rein in regional leaders, some of whom have exercised almost unlimited authority in their own realms.
		The lower house, the State Duma, consists of 450 deputies, half elected from single-mandate geographic districts, and half elected on the basis of party lists.
		The Duma confirms candidates for prime minister, passes federal laws, adopts the federal budget and ratifies treaties.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/fr/gr109335f.html (1101 words)

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		The first two Dumas met for less than a year before they were dissolved, and while they served as a forum for debating the pressing issues of the day, their records of legislative accomplishments were spotty.
		When the Duma refused to accede to this request, it was dissolved, and on the same day a new election law was put into effect.
		The Third Duma was the only one to complete its five year term, and the electoral law of June 3rd did serve to create a body willing to cooperate with the government.
	werbach.com /stuff/thesis.html (20799 words)

	Smartass Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Duma was a kind of parliament which met four times in the period 1905-1917.
		The First Duma (1906) was dominated by the Kadets and was outspoken against the government; in July 1906, after just 42 days, the Duma was dissolved.
		A second Duma was elected in 1907, by which time the Kadet leaders had fled to Finland and many Kadets were forbidden to stand for election.
	www.johndclare.net /Smartass_Russia.htm (4769 words)

	Duma - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Duma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In Russia, before 1917, an elected assembly that met four times following the short-lived 1905 revolution.
		With progressive demands the government could not accept, the Duma was largely powerless.
		After the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, the Duma directed the formation of a provisional government.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /duma (97 words)

	LA Weekly - The Secret Lives of Cheetahs
		Duma, a drama of uncommon beauty and emotional resonance about a South African boyâs journey to return his pet cheetah to its natural habitat, tested dismally at screenings in Sacramento, Phoenix and San Antonio, prompting distributor Warner Bros. to consider shelving the movie.
		Depending on whom you talk to, Duma is another casualty either of risk-averse corporate movie marketing or of a crass new generation of young audiences fed and watered on special-effects pizzazz, for whom live wild animals are sissy stuff, and with whom an aging body of film critics is increasingly out of touch.
		Set in the high desert of South Africa, the movie, which is based on photographer Carol Cawthra Hopcraftâs memoir of farm life with her young son, is powered by a love of nature at once rhapsodic and unsentimental.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/05/40/features-taylor.php (1609 words)

	DUMA Home
		The EMC Documentum Users Group of the Mid-Atlantic (DUMA), sponsored by First Consulting Group, is the leading user group in the country for EMC Documentum.
		If you have misplaced the link that was sent to you via email - please contact duma@fcg.com.
		Join our mailing list for the 2007 DUMA Conference to receive more information when it becomes available.
	www.fcg.com /duma (137 words)

	DVD Report - The Boston Globe
		Warner Bros. threw the film away in its theatrical release, but DVD rescues it from oblivion, and while it's too suspenseful for the youngest children, anyone older than 8 or 9 will find it an awe-inspiring experience (that means parents, too).
		A tiny baby cheetah is rescued from the middle of a rural highway by a South African farmer (Campbell Scott), his wife (Hope Davis), and their 12-year-old son, Xander (Alexander Michaletos).
		As he's preparing to reintroduce Duma to the wild, though, the father dies of a heart attack, and Xan takes it upon himself to complete the plan.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2006/05/14/dvd_report?mode=PF (1570 words)

	Chinese director says Clinton's image has been ruined Stepashin asks lawmakers to confirm him as Russian PM Dissidents ...
		The Duma is to vote on Wednesday on Stepashin's confirmation.
		Stepashin's chances of approval were bolstered by reports that the three largest groups in the Duma, including the Communists, were ready to accept his appointment.
		He also said he would lobby the Duma to pass a package of fiscal reform bills demanded by the International Monetary Fund as a condition for a promised loan.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=12475 (4734 words)

	Secretary of Defense Perry defends Bosnia, nuclear policies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He said he is also concerned that the Russian Duma may not ratify the START II treaty for further reductions in strategic forces.
		The two biggest problems in nuclear "drawdown," he said, are that the Russians are not drawing down their theater weapons, claiming they need them because of threats from hostile neighbors, and the possibility that the Russian Duma will not ratify the START II treaty on long-range or strategic weaponry.
		Asked about threats in Congress to require him to certify Russian treaty compliance on biological and chemical weaponry before more is spent on nuclear reduction assistance, Perry said that he has had numerous discussions with the Russians on the topic and he is "not at all satisfied" with their answers.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/950620Arc5153.html (1864 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Filmed in South Africa, it tells the story of 12-year-old Xan and his nearly domesticated cheetah, Duma, both of whom must learn to find their way in the big, bad world after the death of the boy's father (Campbell Scott).
		Before he died, the gentle farmer planned to take Xan and Duma to the place where the baby cheetah was found, so that the magnificent animal could be reintroduced into the wilderness.
		Yes, Duma is a family film, but in the best possible sense.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /2006/05/25/ae.html (723 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Duma Budget Committee Chairman (Russian Regions) Aleksandr Zhukov told Ekho Moskvy on 7 April that the second part of the Tax Code must be adopted before the end of the year.
		State Duma deputies on 7 April voted to send a parliamentary inquiry to the Anti-Monopoly Ministry, requesting that the ministry check the legality of the recent acquisitions of shares in the Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, and Bratsk aluminum factories and the Achinsk metals conglomerate, "Kommersant-Daily" reported the next day.
		Representatives from around the Turkic world met in Baku on 9 April to mark the 1300th anniversary of the Turkic epic Kitab-i Dede Qorqut, generally considered to be the first literary monument in Turkic, ITAR-TASS reported.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2000/04/100400.asp (6470 words)

	Renseignements internationaux - Russia Country Commercial Guide FY 2004: Political Environ
		Deputies are elected to four-year terms; the next Duma elections are scheduled for December 2003.
		The Constitution allows the president to dismiss the Duma and call early elections in rare circumstances.
		The upper house, the Federation Council, consists of two representatives from each subject of the Russian Federation -- a representative appointed by the head of each regional executive branch and one appointed by the regional legislature.
	strategis.ic.gc.ca /epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/fr/gr122849f.html (1316 words)

	LA Daily News - Be sure to stalk 'Duma' with the entire family
		The animal in "Duma" is a cheetah, initially a baby, found by 12-year-old Xan (Alexander Michaletos) and his father (Campbell Scott) near their farm in South Africa.
		The family, which includes a very understanding mom (Hope Davis), nurses the cheetah to health and adulthood, knowing full well that some day the animal must be returned to the wild.
		(named Duma, which is Swahili for cheetah) back home proves more complicated than thought, and involves another unlikely friendship, this time between Xan and a drifter named Ripkuna (marvelously played by Eamonn Walker).
	www.dailynews.com /filmreviews/ci_3071776 (373 words)

	WILL PUTIN PULL THE PLUG ON THE CIS? - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		Observing the bitter disputes around Russian military bases in Georgia, sour demarches in the State Duma against Moldova, and icy diplomatic exchanges between Russia and Ukraine, it is hard to believe that the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is still a functioning organization.
		As Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Razov recently told the State Duma, the CIS "is experiencing certain difficulties in its development." But he reassured the parliamentarians that the foreign ministers of all member-states would meet in Minsk on March 18 and approve a decision on "optimizing the work of Commonwealth structures" (Interfax, March 9).
		The defeat in that epic battle was so humiliating and devastating that Moscow is apparently still unable to rethink and adjust its strategy.
	www.jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2369408 (888 words)

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