Word: cage
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...relied on its popularity with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater and Ron Howard, while touting its professional film industry labor force, a growing number of sound stages and its geographic diversity. But in the last four years, 32 film projects - including Ghost Rider starring Nicolas Cage and Billy Bob Thornton's The Astronaut Farmer - that had initially expressed interest ended up choosing other locations. Adding insult to injury - an estimated $327 million in spending and 4,600 jobs - 12 of the films had Texas story lines, according to the state's film commisison. Professional crews...
Back home in Paris a week later, Kouchner paces restlessly around his Quai d'Orsay office - "this golden cage," as he calls it - on the Left Bank, with its crystal chandeliers and priceless tapestries. He circles his desk, bemoaning economic injustices, political paralysis and U.S. missteps in Iraq, and outlining his goals to Time. These include a peaceful transition to independence in Kosovo, multiparty talks in Lebanon, an "honest broker" role for France between the U.S. and Iran, and some relief for Africa's refugees. At the time, he was also preparing for his first big initiative as Foreign Minister...
Thankfully, they did not do much. Even with a supermajority, the Democratic legislature failed to pass a budget and was forced to convene a special session. Other pet projects, such as universal healthcare and a ban on trans fats, died in the cage. The Democrats can boast some accomplishments: notably, passing a law to legalize marijuana for medical use; but the law would allow people to grow marijuana in their homes without medical supervision. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Governor Rell vetoed the bill...
...could break away from the pack - The Diana Chronicles, by Tina Brown, published in both the U.S. and the U.K. this month. Brown, the former editor of the Tatler, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, follows the princess as she goes from shy newlywed to "trapped bird in a cage" to a confident woman whose new start in life was tragically cut short. Brown stitched together two years of research with her own experiences of Diana, whom she met several times in the 1980s. "I ended up really liking Diana," says Brown. "She was a complicated girl with deep wounds...
Vale Tudo, which translates as "anything goes" in Portuguese, originated among jiu-jitsu masters in Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana neighborhood, which has the largest concentration of jiu-jitsu academies in the world. Often called "cage fighting" or Ultimate Fighting in North America, fighters use a mixture of several different kinds of martial arts styles to force their opponent to "tap out" or give up. In Rio de Janeiro, matches became so brutal that fighters were often rushed to the hospital after their matches. There is now a 30-page rule book ("no hair-pulling, no eye-gouging, no biting...