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There are 23 minutes remaining before her Today show appearance, and Zlata Filipovic, the 13-year-old chronicler of war-torn Sarajevo, is snacking on cantaloupe, perusing a Harper's Bazaar and affecting an impressive calm. Impressive because she is surrounded by more chain-smoking attendants than even the Texan rock-star aspirant seated across the green room. While there is no faux blond manager in black crochet at the young Bosnian girl's disposal, her entourage is a solicitous group that includes her lawyer father and chemist mother, their Serbo-Croatian translator, a publicist and a representative from Zlata...
Nonetheless, the secret 177-page prosecutor's report, a copy of which TIME has obtained, lays out a credible chain of accusations. It declares flatly that "Iranian intelligence services effectively took part in carrying out this criminal conspiracy." The head of the intelligence and security ministry, Ali Fallahian, is believed to be in charge of Tehran's worldwide assassination networks. Investigators also claim to have uncovered links to Iran's foreign ministry, telecommunications ministry, Islamic orientation ministry and state television network, IRIB. One key charge in the prosecutor's report is that an important member of the alleged assassins' support...
...took over the 71 Humana hospitals. Last month, with particular satisfaction, Scott changed the name of his firm to Columbia/HCA Healthcare, having just completed an $8 billion merger with his original, elusive target. In so doing he added HCA's 95 hospitals to Columbia's sprawling, 26-state chain...
...increases from the year before, according to a study by the Foster Higgins consulting firm. The competition to serve patients has become so intense that when Columbia, which operates 47 hospitals in Florida, bid on a contract to serve the public employees of Lee County, Florida, last fall, the chain had to offer a 40% discount to win the business...
...devastating twist that makes the ending is a surprise, and nevertheless absolutely logical. One feels slightly battered, and yet exhilarated, and ultimately filled with a sweet melancholy. The film's pleasures are practically inexhaustible. There is Marie Dubois as Therese, the chain-smoking philandering, cocotte. There is Georges Delerue's haunting, evocative music. There is the carefree relationship between Jules and Jim, which is made possible by Werner's and Serre's terrific performances. And when all else and, there is Jeanne Moreau's voice. At one point, the film's narrator tells the audience that "the month that [Catherine...