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...shared Jury Prize had to be a disappointment for its two recipients. Arnold had taken the same award three years ago for her first feature, Red Road, and Park snagged the Grand Jury prize in 2003 for Oldboy. But the really startling awards were in the supporting categories. Kinatay, which depicts the torture, beheading and dismemberment of a prostitute, was almost universally reviled. In the critics' poll for Film Francais magazine, this grotty little melodrama from Brillante Mendoza, the forlorn hope of Filipino cinema, was given the lowest rating of any official selection. But somebody must think that Mendoza really...
Assistant public school principal Mitchell Wiener (WEE'-ner) became the city's first death from the virus a week ago...
...city's first outbreak of swine flu occurred about a month ago, when more than 1,000 teenagers at a Catholic high school in Queens began falling ill following the return of several students from vacations in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak...
...banks, though, lent mostly to commercial developers and home builders who, as business owners, have been able to hang on longer than the typical strapped consumer. But now that the recession is 16 months and counting, developers are facing the same problems that individual homeowners began facing two years ago. With vacancies in malls and office buildings around the country on the rise, more and more developers will be unable to pay their mortgages. And as those loans go bust, so too will more and more of our nation's smaller banks...
...Studies Department chair Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp said that his department should be spared further cuts because it is “already bare bones,” with just one staff member and one tenured professor in the department itself. He said that about a decade ago a proposed merger between Sanskrit and East Asian Languages and Civilizations was rejected because there was “no intellectual rationale...