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...will you be seeing Amelia 2: Lost and Found. The Earhart movie, originally to have been directed by Phillip Noyce, with Cate Blanchett rumored to play Amelia Earhart, was finally made with Hilary Swank starring and India-born, Harvard-educated Mira Nair behind the camera. It happens that, in every recent year divisible by five, Swank has won the Academy Award for Best Actress: in 2000 for Boys Don,t Cry and 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. Numerology suggested another Swank statuette in 2010. But who, exactly, was supposed to pay to see her as The Aviatrix? Earhart's plane...
Dueling Political Castes The current brawl is more than a personal feud. It pits the older, cosseted caste of statesmen and dignitaries against a younger, feistier generation more driven by election victories and policy results than diplomas and refinement. The split is perfectly personified in Sarkozy and Villepin. Born and raised abroad to a diplomat father and a judicial official mother, Villepin attended the élite schools that produce France's top civil servants. True to his family's aristocratic roots, the suave, permatanned Villepin is famous for writing poetry and studies of Napoleon. Despite winning praise as Foreign Affairs...
...handy form of address, Ms. found a foothold in the 1952 guidelines of the National Office Management Association: they suggested using it to avoid any confusion over a woman's marital state. Twenty years later, when Ms. magazine was born, the editors explained, "Ms. is being adopted as a standard form of address by women who want to be recognized as individuals, rather than being identified by their relationship with a man." That same year, the U.S. Government Printing Office approved using Ms. in official government documents. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
Unlike many Georgians, Saakashvili doesn't smoke. He drinks, but less than those around him. He is almost compulsively social and enjoys the company of beautiful women. On the wall of his office is a series of photos of him picking up the Georgian-born British pop star Katie Melua, 25, like a newlywed crossing the threshold. More than anything, though, Saakashvili is restless. His jitters can at times make him seem like an overgrown adolescent. Cameras caught him chewing nervously on his tie during last August's war, a gesture he has been careful not to repeat...
...dualities of Argentina reconciled in a way that strengthens a shaky sense of national unity: Maradona strides among the fissures of a nation divided between the haves and have-nots, between the descendants of its original indigenous population and those of European immigrants, and between Peronists and anti-Peronists. Born in a shanty town, he became extremely rich and famous at a very young age; he can claim both Italian and indigenous ancestry; and politically he has veered from hobnobbing with right-wing Peronists such as former Argentine President Carlos Menem in the 1990s to being an outspoken and unconditional...