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...Rodrigo Noya, 8-year-old Valentin lives in 1960s Buenos Airesdeserted by his mother, ignored by his philandering father and boarding with his cranky, sickly grandma. Eventually, he more or less invents a family to attach himself to. But this is not The 400 Blows. Director-writer Alejandro Agresti flat out denies the implicit--and, yes, existential--terrors of this child's desperately improvised life. Agresti's just out to give us a sentimental good time. Which some people, heaven help us, will have--while the rest of us choke on the cutesiness...
...being challenged by a younger generation eager for change. "We're seeing the seeds of the end of the Chirac era," says Dominique Reynié, director of the Interregional Observatory of Politics in Paris. "Part of that is the emancipation of the party." Last month the party pronounced its flat-out opposition to Turkey's membership of the European Union; Chirac has said Turkey will eventually join. This month the party called for a referendum on the European Constitution, undermining Chirac's craftier stance of waiting until...
...most extreme traits in all of us--capacities for love, fear, persistence you never knew you had--and those traits are only magnified when a kid is in danger. You stay up all night when your daughter spikes a 101° fever. You drive across town in five minutes flat when your son falls out of a tree. But parenting a child who has a serious genetic disease transcends that entirely, as movies like Lorenzo's Oil have shown. It turns Clark Kents into Supermen and former science-phobes into experts in molecular biology. "For a long time in the pediatric...
...from Washington State asked, "Why not a discussion of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin or how Santa gets to every kid's house in one night?" And a snarky Californian let us know he is "looking forward to TIME's story on the Flat Earth Society...
...sport's country-club partner, golf, is also on the downswing. Participation is flat: annual rounds played have fallen 4.5%, to 494 million, since 2000. In the five-year period from 1997 to 2002, according to the NSGA, spending on golf clubs, balls and apparel shrank from $5.33 billion to $4.6 billion, a 14% drop. Equipment sales fell again last year. Golf has even taken down a Wall Street firm. Gotham Partners, a hedge fund with $300 million in assets, shut down last year because of losses on golf-course investments: too many new courses have been built...