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...people - including survivors of the regime, ordinary citizens, scores of journalists and foreign diplomats - attended the opening hearing at the tribunal?s headquarters on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The sense of history was palpable. "I came here because I wanted to know what Duch would say," said Chum Mey, 77, one of only a dozen or so former inmates to emerge alive from Duch?s notorious S-21 prison and torture center. ?If he would admit that he killed people...
...Lumpur and Singapore, where he worked at various ad agencies as an illustrator until he was 36. "If you're trained in advertising you can't have a blurry composition because you have to get the message across with a minimum of effort," says Hamdan Omar, an art-school chum of Zakii's who worked alongside him in the Kuala Lumpur ad world. As a consequence, Zakii's polished paintings sometimes appear unattractive to collectors looking for more frisson - a characteristic of the Indonesian Masriadi's work, for instance. "Zakii's very good at composition," says Kuala Lumpur art-gallery...
...roles on cable outweighs any stigma. "I'm glad to be doing TV," she says. "I'll do it at a bus stop if that means you're getting something new and creative out there. I'd do it if it were a dog-food commercial: Buy Pedigree Chum from Dahlia the crank addict...
...cannabis to be fairly innocuous - in some cases even remedial of afflictions - and in any case, far less dangerous to health than tobacco or his glass of vino. "There's a certain degree of risk in anything you do, including eating!" he says, passing his petard to his laconic chum. "Risk and indulgence is inherent in the French way of life. It's part of our joie de vivre." Perhaps, but if the Observatory's study is accurate, the French joie is increasingly chemically assisted...
...paparazzi in boats out in the harbor taking pictures. Having just been through the celebrity muck of Cannes, who gets it the worst? CLOONEY: There's no question, it's Brad. PITT: Well, exponentially, with us together ... CLOONEY: But even before he was with [Angelina Jolie], we used to chum the water with him. PITT: This is not a joke. They used to send me out to take the hits. CLOONEY: We were at the airport in Italy. So I walk off the plane, and it's "Hey, Giorgio!" And I go, "Look! Brad Pitt!" and they're gone. DAMON...