A story of one young girl's day trying to get some schooling in post-Taliban but still-medieval Afghanistan.

The Islamist terror organization that the U.S. set out to smash after 9/11 seems to be alive and well and changing tactics, relying more on home-grown terror operatives and become more media-active.

At TIFF, there are -- at a minimum -- hundreds of fans with cellphone and regular digital cameras, and they're ready and willing to feed gossip websites with snapshots. This is making it tougher for real paparazzi to make a living.

From the Sept. 10 NYT:

In the race to become a major supplier of original video programming to the Web, Warner Brothers has decided to reverse its direction.

The studio, part of Time Warner, plans today to introduce 24 Web productions in a range of formats including minimovies, games and episodic television shows.

But for this latest online push, Warner Brothers has discarded its initial strategy of insisting that advertisers shoulder production costs from the start. Instead, it has decided to finance most projects itself and worry about lining up advertisers to recoup costs later.

“In trying to get the business off the ground,” said Craig Hunegs, executive vice president for business development, “we ended up in a bit of a dance with advertisers about what various projects would look like.”

The shift underlines a growing realization among the big Hollywood studios: Web entertainment is evolving so quickly that they must take on more financial risk to keep up.

In the Second World War, Klaus Barbie developed a reputation as a ruthless, efficient -- even sadistic -- interrogator and counter-terrorism officer for the SS in Lyon, France. He earned the nickname "The Butcher of Lyon."

So when the war ended, what do you do with a guy like that? Well, for one thing, you don't waste his skills by prosecuting him as a war criminal. You put him to work fighting Soviet communism.