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...leave, they promise to have me over to one of their many parties, which are star-studded but, they insist, won't make me feel uncomfortable. Even their 1,100-person wedding, they tell me, wasn't a big scene. "It was a very down-to-earth affair," Gest says. "That's the way we've always done things. You make everyone - whether you're the cleaning person or a star - feel as one. You leave your ego at the door...
...once, you can believe a beleaguered distributor. The affair between Padre Amaro and Amelia ends in trag-edy. But before that occurs, director Carlos Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an overwhelmingly Catholic country. Bland bishops, older priests turning a blind eye to drug lords, churchly displeasure with the film's most heroic figure--a people's padre--are shown with cool objectivity. Exit polls in Mexico found that 70% of audiences approved of the movie...
...shin. The decision is the latest twist in a case that dates back to Teddy Wang's unsolved 1990 kidnapping. (His body was never found, but he was declared dead in 1999). The tycoon had changed his will in 1968 after discovering that his wife was allegedly having an affair, and had named his father as the inheritor. But in 1990, Nina produced another will dated a month prior to her husband's disappearance; it named "my beloved wife ... the one I love most on Earth" as sole beneficiary. Given that the gruff Teddy was not known to spout love...
...name, left his native China in 1985 to study English literature at Brandeis University. He rose to prominence in 1999 when his second novel, Waiting, won the National Book Award in the U.S., a first for a Chinese writer. The tale of a two-decade-delayed love affair between a married doctor and a nurse in a China slouching toward modernity, Waiting established Jin as the poet of dreams deferred. His follow up novel, The Crazed, is stylistically similar, but this time Jin has made his politics more explicit. Set in the heartbreaking spring of 1989, The Crazed exposes...
Even by Pakistan's cynical political standards, last week's selection of a new Prime Minister seemed a sordid affair. This was an arrangement rigged outside Parliament. It was struck in a jail cell, in lengthy telephone calls to exiled politicians wanting a comeback, and with the usual allegations of bribes and threats directed at legislators. None of this offers much hope for the start of President Pervez Musharraf's new brand of what he calls "guided democracy...