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...parents' love for their autistic son. We functioned as a Noah-support group. Almost as soon as I was aware of myself, there was Noah, a perpetual source of worry and concern because of his delayed development. He wasn't turning over, crawling, walking, doing anything on schedule except talking - and he soon regressed out of speech. My parents began then the lacerating pilgrimage from specialist to specialist, seeking, first, an explanation for this delayed development and then, finally, desperately, a cure, a therapy, hope...
...reform will be massively expensive, yet the trial lawyers' lobby is not being asked to endure the cost savings that tort reform would bring to health insurance. The teachers' unions are unscathed as billions in new spending is poured into public education. Costly - and popular - farm subsidies are untouched (except for those painlessly targeted at "rich" farmers...
...main Palme went to The White Ribbon, an austere and lacerating tale of collective brutality and guilt in a small German village two decades before Hitler took power. This is a pure art film, daunting and demanding, spare and unsparing, making no concession to the prevailing popular taste - except, perhaps, film-festival taste. It was also, as we two Cannes veterans attest, the finest work in the competition. Writer-director Michael Haneke, a personally austere gent who has won prizes here before, with The Piano Teacher (starring Huppert) and Caché, was finally forced to crack a smile...
...Everyone agrees sales on these days are derisory," Le Figaro director general Francis Morel told Le Monde (which says it will continue publishing on all holidays except May 1). "The savings involved are around...
...French dailies traditionally publish on all holidays except the May 1 labor day. But Libération editors explained that sluggish sales on days off don't offset the cost of printing the cash-strapped paper. Rival publications reacted not with smug guffaws, but with more of the same. Conservative daily Le Figaro now says it will also suspend publication on three French holidays. That follows the earlier lead of financial dailies Les Echos and La Tribune to sit out national holidays - a sous-pinching habit to which Catholic daily La Croix and its communist opposite L'Humanité have...