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RENEE ZELLWEGER plays a hardscrabble country woman in the upcoming Civil War epic Cold Mountain. To fix the mood on set, director Anthony Minghella displayed tintype photos of cast members, including Jude Law and Nicole Kidman. Zellweger "is not digging into her own biography as an actress," says Minghella in Interview, where the pictures appear. "She's creating it." Either that or it's the gritty stare of a gal who wants her Oscar...
...injure those inside. So why didn't the Army anticipate such a problem? It did: future versions of the Stryker will sport four tons of custom-made, high-tech armor, but those currently bound for Iraq are early models, making the ungainly $100,000 cages a necessary, if temporary, fix. --By Mark Thompson
...projects in Kazakhstan and Russia. He's now back to fast-paced work, converting biochemical-warfare facilities into peacetime factories and, in tandem with U.S. agencies, finding jobs for former government scientists. "It's incredibly rewarding," he says, being "so closely linked to something that is trying to fix mankind...
...parties may fail to reach the 5% mark needed to qualify for the Duma. If the elections are true to past form, there will be some vote rigging. "In Moscow or in St. Petersburg, they rig the vote by 2% to 5%," Yavlinsky told TIME. "In some regions, they fix 50% of returns." "They" in this case are overzealous Putin supporters. Putin's freedom of maneuver in a second term depends largely on next week's results. An election that seemed so predictable just five weeks ago looks a little less certain now. Maybe that's why Putin...
...time Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Thomas L. Friedman speaks for most of the North American elite when he condemns “these anti-WTO protesters—who are a Noah’s ark of flat-earth advocates, protectionist trade unions and yuppies looking for their 1960s fix.” Yet, even within the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, there are some new voices admitting that the Friedman world view and policy prescriptions have led to misery for much of the world. In many Ivy League economic circles and among the Business Roundtable, the Washington...