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...those who remembered to celebrate the recent Feast of the Immaculate Conception) will lose themselves in two current books: Cunneen's In Search of Mary (Ballantine; $14) and Jaroslav Pelikan's Mary Through the Centuries (Yale University Press; $25). No one reading either of them will be tempted to count Miraculous Medals out permanently...
...ENGLISH PATIENT For so many European wanderlusters who found an Eden in the Sahara, the desert was a woman--dazzling, enveloping, with a vastness that held all their dreams. In such a place, just before World War II, the Hungarian aristocrat Count Laszlo de Almasy finds his ideal desert woman and follows her to hell. He then lives, just barely, to tell the tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas...
After a slow start, the Crimson has made strides over the past week, however, defeating URI 77-71 and UNH by a 74-69 count. Indeed, the Crimson seems to have recaptured its confidence, something that its opponents cannot overlook in head-to-head competition...
...game of life, some believe, accumulated wealth is the way the score is kept. Thus it's not enough to count your blessings in multimillions of dollars and want for nothing. It matters who is ahead and who is falling behind, as calibrated by Forbes magazine's annual listing of the 400 richest Americans. Or so billionaire Ted Turner believes. Last summer he told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, "That list is destroying our country," claiming that the "ole skinflints" are so afraid of slipping down the Forbes list--"their Super Bowl"--that they hoard, rather than share, their...
...tricky. Studios generally affix that label to a picture that not only has a predominantly black cast but also deals with African-American themes. Thus, for movie executives, an Eddie Murphy comedy like The Nutty Professor--a blockbuster that grossed $129 million from a diverse audience--doesn't count; Spike Lee movies do. So does Set It Off, the heist movie starring Queen Latifah that was a modest hit this fall, with grosses of $26 million, mostly from blacks...