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...payments until she remarries or one of them dies. What do they have in common? Both women had given up careers after marriage; the rulings imply that the divorce settlements should compensate them for their sacrifice. It's not just women who are winning; judges at the Court of Appeal last week ordered a wealthy woman to boost payments to her ex-husband. It's too early to say whether the rulings will scare people off marriage or lead to more divorces. But some lawyers predict that unhappy spouses around the world may scheme their way to England or Wales...
...special effects and, finally, a mournful wisdom about love, honor and death. Also a standout was Climates, from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. This minor-key étude of love, sex and selfishness used minimalist strategies to reveal the shifting emotional allegiances of a college professor, played with gruff appeal by the director. Shortbus, a U.S. romantic comedy set in a New York City sex salon, might have been the outrage of the festival, since it contained several no-fooling hard-core sex scenes. But John Cameron Mitchell's movie brims with so much fun and heartbreak that it upset...
...spectacle The Swan. Body of Desire spins the story of a wealthy man married to a beautiful woman; the man dies and is reincarnated in the body of a laborer, only to find that all the people in his former life are phonies. The supernatural twist, Richard says, will appeal to viewers hooked on shows like Medium...
...Game for All Ages" [May 15] reported that Nintendo hopes its new game controller, which senses a player's hand movements, will appeal to girls and grandparents. As a female gamer who has been playing video games since the days of Pac-Man, I am always amused by game companies that feel the need to target female gamers. Not one of the games aimed at girls has appealed to me. You know what I want in a game? How about realistic female characters instead of bouncy, skinny, half-naked ones? I've given up playing female characters in any game...
...amount of criticism by the opposition (including the Liberal Party candidate Horacio Serpa), policy setbacks or even corruption scandals that have tainted his administration appear to have seriously damaged Uribe's mass appeal. "Nothing seems to affect his popularity, neither the good nor the bad," said political analyst Fernando Cepeda. "What determines his popularity is the overriding perception that he is a man who kills himself working and he's doing the best...