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Berendt's investigation gives him an excuse to hang out with an array of beguiling Venetians, including Count Girolamo Marcello, a wry nobleman who lives in a 600-year-old palace. "What is true? What is not true?" Count Marcello asks. "The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change ... That is the Venice effect." --By Lev Grossman...
...Ohio ethics commission had been investigating for two months whether Taft broke the law mandating that gifts over $75 be reported on financial disclosure forms. He could have received up to six months in jail on each count. The ethics violations have even party loyalists for the first time hinting that the embattled governor should step down. "I'm pretty confident that he should resign," said Neil Clark, a top GOP lobbyist. "I don't know how else we can rebuild the confidence of the people...
...family with tranquility and a feeling of a real home, he says. Given a piece of land there by the Israeli government, he invested more than $200,000 to build a luxury home of 1200 square feet. "Actually, it's more than double the size", Firouz says, "if you count the balconies and other extras...
Well, because acting is the pouring of a fictional spirit into an actual body. A star actor like Fiennes gradually becomes the sum of his roles--Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, the Count in The English Patient, Hamlet and Coriolanus onstage--conflated with his public persona. As for the public part, Fiennes doesn't give his fans much news to play with. He is divorced from actress Alex Kingston (ER) and has lived for a decade with actress Francesca Annis, 18 years his senior. He refuses to connect any dots between his roles and himself. And he rarely uses...
...certainly don’t. It’s too hard to count and walk at the same time...