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...From the thousand or so submitted each year, the Festival's programming chiefs, Thierry Fremeaux and Gilles Jacob, choose about 20 films to compete for the top prize, the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm), awarded on closing night by a nine- person Jury of directors, actors and other film folk. (Chinese auteur Wong Kar-wai is the 2006 Jury President.) Fremeaux also picks the entries for a sidebar program with the rather diffident name Un Certain Regard (A Certain Look). Other films, like tonight's Festival opener The Da Vinci Code, are shown out of competition. There's a selection...
...DIED. Soraya, 37, Colombian-American singer-songwriter who traveled to Latin America to educate women about early detection of breast cancer; of breast cancer; in Miami. Soraya infused her eclectic brand of pop with rock, flamenco and Colombian folk, and won a Latin Grammy for her self-titled 2003 CD. But the mission of the young artist-who lost her mother, aunt and grandmother to breast cancer-was her war on the disease. On her website, she recently told fans: "I have not lost this battle, because I know the fight was not in vain...
...development of the western side. Under an arching transparent canopy, mainstream shops and restaurants, which moved in over the winter, are now doing a brisk trade alongside the established stalls peddling eclectica. Among the new arrivals, only the restaurant Canteen might appeal to both the bohemian crowd and financial folk. "Is this a chain?" asked my Friday lunch companion. Not yet, but it's easy to imagine blond wood and tweedy green-upholstered clones being assembled out of flat packs across the land. Canteen offers freshly executed traditional British fare?macaroni and cheese, meat pies and all-day breakfasts?served...
DIED. Soraya, 37, Colombian-American singer-songwriter who traveled to Latin America to educate women about early detection of breast cancer; of breast cancer; at a hospital in Miami. She infused her eclectic brand of pop with elements of rock, flamenco and Colombian folk, and won a Latin Grammy for her self-titled 2003 CD. But the mission of the young artist--who lost her mother, aunt and grandmother to breast cancer--was her war on the disease. On her website, she recently told fans: "I have not lost this battle, because I know the fight was not in vain...
This story makes me laugh because it sounds so much like another story that has gotten a lot more play in the media and in campus political circles. Harvard students have no trouble accepting the idea that rural, God-fearing po’ folk have made some ridiculous error and voted for the party that makes their lives miserable. We look out over middle America and say, “Well, Buffy, I guess they’re just too dumb to vote Democrat. If only they realized that Republicans are using social issues to delude them, then they?...