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...levered back in his chair, feet up on the desk, Walkman blaring—in every office of every building in Lower Manhattan.Vintage eventually picked up the novel, and the rest is history. These days it’s better known for its 2000 film adaptation, starring Christian Bale as Bateman. That film spared very little in the name of delicacy; in one scene, Bateman dives under the sheets with a woman and reemerges with his maw covered in gore. In another, he axes his colleague full in the face.The film version of “The Informers?...
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...meantime, The Jai Ho Trust, which was formed to look after the two youngest children in Slumdog Millionaire, Rubina and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, sprang into action. (It is supported by Slumdog's director, Danny Boyle, producer Christian Colson and an Indian child rights group, Plan India). The trust issued a statement saying that its representatives are in regular contact with Rubina and her parents to help protect the child's interests. "We are looking towards shifting the family out of the slum and into a flat, which will be held in trust till the children turn 18," says Noshir...
...notorious group: 95% of them had criminal histories, many were part of Nazi and fascist groups, from Germany to Ireland." Rozsa rose to the status of Major and gained a reputation for brashness - before scandal hit in December of 1991. That's when a PIV enlistee named Christian Wurtemburg, a Swiss national, turned up dead - tortured and garroted. British journalist Paul Jenks began investigating Wurtemburg's death and was shot dead as well. (British journalist John Sweeney made a movie about the deaths in 1994 for Channel 4 called Dying for the Truth...
...TIME's 10 world-changing ideas [March 23]: Your approach is a bit U.S.-centric. While Calvinism is certainly gaining influence in the States, that influence pales in comparison with the global sway of charismatic Pentecostalism, which is transforming the religious landscape of the developing world. Sadly, no Christian movement, Calvinist or otherwise, currently has that kind of impact in American society. Richard Land, Nashville