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While his colleagues became directors whose names were dropped at the better cocktail parties in London, New York City and Tokyo, Rohmer trudged along at the magazine and made shorts and feature-length pictures that got little notice. My Night at Maud's changed that. The soufflé-light, dialogue-heavy film - the first to be shown with subtitles in the Cannes festival competition - enchanted audiences with its tale of a man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) committed to one woman (Marie-Christine Barrault) but willing to stay the night with the divorced Maud (Françoise Fabian) just ... talking. After...
...faked out sometimes by the particular moment that we're living in, whether it's a boom or a bust. If you take three steps backward, you'll realize that the trajectory of things is generally positive. It's not in one smooth upward slope. It involves some pain along the way. But in general, the future is better than the past...
...paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes that argument a lot harder to sustain. João Zilhão of the University of Bristol, along with several colleagues, has uncovered Neanderthal jewelry from two caves in southern Spain dating to about 50,000 years ago. "This," says Zilhão, "is 10,000 years before modern humans arrived. There is no question that Neanderthals are their makers...
...Kate] knew that time was doable,” Morawski said. “She got a commanding lead and got stronger as the race went along. She’s been training well so it’s not much of a surprise...
...more peaceful year in Pakistan were blown away on New Year's Day, when a suicide bomber detonated an SUV packed with explosives at a volleyball tournament, leaving more than 90 people dead. It was but the latest in an a steady stream of brutal attacks that have escalated along with the Pakistan Army's three-month-old offensive against the Pakistan Taliban in South Waziristan. And it reinforced a growing perception across the country that the government is in no position to mount a robust response. Stopping determined terrorists is difficult for even the most able governments, but analysts...