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...climatic point of self-awareness by the impending nuptials. The relationships seem to have been constructed to demonstrate the ravages of globalization: the groom, for example, has flown in from Houston and is clumsily out of touch with traditional Indian customs; the bride’s cousin begins an affair with a distant Australian relative whose western norms of sexual permissiveness complicate the coupling...
Rockwell’s lifelong affair with the arts began during his undergraduate years at Harvard, where he says he “did odd things”—including working at WHRB, participating in the madrigal club and singing in the chorus of the Harvard-Radcliffe Opera...
...GOOD THIEF. Neil Jordan, who hasn’t directed a feature since 1999’s The End of the Affair, ends his absence with this heist film, based upon Jean-Pierre Melville’s jazzy 1955 noir Bob le Flambeur. Nick Nolte, who weathered a well-publicized DUI arrest last year, does nothing to rehabilitate his image by starring as a graying, heroin-addicted gambler who tries to rob a casino. Holding the film together are a passel of modern noir/heist elements—the prostitute, the chummy detective, the technology whiz, exotic locations and lush cinematography...
...repercussions for agents Smith and Cleveland are deeply personal. Smith, 59, admitted to the affair after the FBI had recorded him having sex with Leung in an L.A. hotel. Smith, who through his attorneys denies any wrongdoing, was charged with gross negligence and released on bail. Cleveland, who was not charged (and declined to talk to TIME), left the bureau in 1993 and took a job at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear-weapons research facility. He resigned last week, and the lab is investigating whether any of its classified data were leaked. As for Leung, she remains...
...began on April 15 in the capital city of a province that has reported nearly 1,300 cases of SARS. Last year, 135,000 foreign businessmen elbowed through exhibition halls at the fair, signing $18.5 billion in deals. Fewer than 8,000 people attended this year's SARS-tainted affair, which featured mainly rows of bored Chinese exhibitors from around the country. Many of them would have stayed home, too, but the government ordered them to attend. "We know the situation is bad and scary, but as a Shanghai organizer, I had to tell our companies that it is okay...