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...fact, we have no problem with each other at all!" Greek Cypriot politicians say Denktash provisionally opened the border - visitors cannot stay overnight - to earn back public goodwill after he torpedoed a U.N. reunification plan earlier this year. Whatever the motivation is, it is working, for now. Pantakis' daughter carried a bouquet of daisies for the Turkish Cypriot family "occupying" her family home. Returning from his own pilgrimage, Greek Cypriot Yannis Adamu held up a bag of fresh lemons from his ancestral garden. "There is a huge will for peace," he said. - By Andrew Purvis. Reported by Pelin Turgut/Nicosia Potholed...
...family dramedy by director Lisa Cholodenko. McDormand, the overbearing mom in Almost Famous, this time plays the type of fast-moving music producer scorned by her character in Cameron Crowe’s amusing 2000 cult favorite. Among her character’s transgressions: inviting Alex (Beckinsale), her future daughter-in-law, to join a three-way as part of an unconventional “getting to know you” exercise. Sam, her uber-straightlaced son (Christian Bale), would not approve. Sam and Alex are the best-looking Harvard grad school alums since Reese Witherspoon?...
...scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family members and other refugees from Nazi-controlled Europe. Particularly interesting is Walter’s daughter, Regina, who quickly transitions to life Kenya, embracing the country as her true home and being accepted by native Kenyans after learning their language. The story ultimately questions what a home is. Despite early misgivings, Jettel, Regina’s mother, is ultimately won over as well. They grudgingly accompany...
...spouse left behind often faces an anguished choice: work more, to help ease the financial burden, or less, to help ease the emotional one. Barry Esteves has been in Afghanistan with the National Guard military police for three months, but in West Boylston, Mass., his daughter Melanie, 8, told her mother, "It feels like Daddy died." Mindy Esteves decided to leave the beauty salon where she had worked for 14 years, and she found a job at which she could put in fewer hours on a more flexible schedule...
...With only two days' notice, she did some recruiting of her own. Her friend Chris Pigott and her mother Linda Srednicki have stepped in, and so far, it seems to be working. Though Linda lives 2? hours away and has a full-time job, she knew she was her daughter's best hope. "What do you do? Let the business fold?" she asks...