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...takes a gorgeous bright Sunday like this one to remind movie people visiting from afar that Cannes has a life outside the Film Festival. It is a resort town of 70,000 people, most of whom live nowhere near the beach. But on lovely weekends, the locals, many of them as beautiful as movie stars, come down from the hills for a family stroll on the seaside Croisette. They pack the public beaches to get an early start on their suntans. And as a splendid May afternoon wanes and time nears for the Film Festival's first evening show...
...fill his old job, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is harder to pin down. San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada is, for one thing, the first American ever to reach such an influential position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. A native of Long Beach, California, who headed the diocese in Portland, Oregon, before moving to San Francisco in 1995, he is known for his diplomatic skills, which temper his conservative positions on most doctrinal issues. For example, though a vocal opponent of Mayor Gavin Newsom's flurry of gay weddings last year, Levada had earlier...
...cuisine still bears Portuguese, Jewish and Arab influences. These join a native storehouse of ingredients rich with Ayurvedic properties: turmeric is said to be good for the complexion, and cinnamon for digestion; curry leaves, some claim, help fight cancer. The groaning buffet at Samuel's restaurant, Marari Beach, tel: (91) 478 286 3801, near Alleppey, is an excellent place to sample this kaleidoscopic cooking. Besides fresh seafood, you'll enjoy typical dishes like banana flower with grated coconut and lemon rice with beetroot chutney. A sister restaurant in Fort Cochin, The History, tel: (91) 484 221 5461, specializes in Arab...
...cuisine still reveals Portuguese, Jewish and Arab influences. These join a native storehouse of ingredients rich with Ayurvedic properties: turmeric is said to be good for the complexion, and cinnamon for digestion; curry leaves, some claim, help fight cancer. The groaning buffet at Samuel's restaurant, Marari Beach, tel: (91) 478 286 3801, near Alleppey, is an excellent place to sample this kaleidoscopic cooking. Besides fresh seafood, you'll enjoy typical dishes like banana flower with grated coconut and lemon rice with beetroot chutney. A sister restaurant in Fort Cochin, The History, tel: (91) 484 221 5461, specializes in Arab...
...DIED. JACK NICHOLS, 67, pioneering U.S. gay-rights activist who helped organize the movement's first rally outside the White House, in 1965, and successfully lobbied the American Psychiatric Association to rescind its classification of homosexuality as a mental illness, which it did in 1973; of leukemia; in Cocoa Beach, Florida...