Word: austrian
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Adapted from Henri-Pierre Roche's novel, the film begins in 1912, with the meeting of Jules and Jim. As the voice-over narration recounts, Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian newly arrived in Paris, meets Jim (Henri Serre), a Frenchman, and the two young bohemians become fast friends. Their friendship appears to be perfect. According to the narrator, "they talked into the early hours of the morning, each teaching the other his own language and literature...showed each other poems and translated them together...shared a relative indifference towards money and...chatted easily, each finding in the other the best...
Wallis discovered exactly how strongly readers respond to such "old news" two years ago, when she edited a cover story about the "Ice Man," a Stone Age human trapped and preserved in an Austrian glacier. It was one of the year's most popular stories. Last year she repeated the experience with a cover updating the conventional wisdom about dinosaurs; Alexander has had similar success with a cover exploring the dawn of life. Notes Wallis: "If you have a new artifact to look at -- the skull of an early hominid, the talon of a velociraptor -- you can engage...
...unexpected U.S. triumphs left Austrian and Swiss favorites floundering in the powder. The two powerhouse Alpine nations, where World Cup races are routinely televised and schuss stars are celebrities, had dominated Olympic skiing for decades. Yet last week a Norwegian (the dynamic Kjetil Andre Aamodt) and a Canadian (the surprising Ed Podivinsky) won silver and bronze medals in downhill after Moe, while a Russian, Svetlana Gladischeva, edged Italian Isolde Kostner for silver in the women's super-G. In the men's super- G, Markus Wasmeier, a Bavarian who likes to play Mozart on his zither, won the gold, beating...
...Aamodt, whose ski-coach father used to blindfold him on skis to teach him the feel of the snow, he is fast succeeding the Austrian Marc Girardelli, who competes for Luxembourg, as the world's best all-around skier. Leading in World Cup points, the charismatic Norwegian skis both downhill and slalom and could well rack up more medals this week. "In Norway we used to have the attitude that you should not do something special -- or at least you should not think you are special," Aamodt said. "But now we are developing a winner's attitude...
Nearly two years and more than 200,000 deaths after the West began to assist the Bosnians, some are asking if the aid intended to save lives has only prolonged the war. "That is a downright deadly argument," retorts Wolfgang Berger of the Austrian Catholic charity Caritas, the largest private agency working in the former Yugoslavia. "You can't make peace by sacrificing still more civilians to hunger and destitution...