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...Grifters is the gem -- small, cold, bright, brilliantly crafted. The movie traces the slug tracks of three con artists who play their deadliest tricks on one another. Roy Dillon (John Cusack) works the "short con," using loaded dice and legerdemain to skin cashiers and sailors. Roy's girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening) is cheaper, perkier, ever ready to try the "long con" -- the elaborate scheme that takes suckers for big stakes. Roy's mother Lilly (Anjelica Huston) is the con woman supreme. Abused and abusing since girlhood, she can stand up to her sadistic boss or pull off a motel-room...
...recession looming across the U.S., consumers and companies have cut back their spending. Yet Swiss jeweler Piaget, whose motto is "Always do better than is necessary," is betting that the time is ripe for a new round of conspicuous consumption. Later this month Piaget will unveil its $1 million, gem-encrusted Aura watch, a flashy bauble that sports 237 diamonds set in an 18-karat-gold band and case...
MARCUS ROBERTS: DEEP IN THE SHED (Novus). Now on his own after five years with the Wynton Marsalis band, this blind, bluesy, brilliant pianist is out with a gem of an album that showcases his skills as a composer as well as his stylish work at the keyboard...
...real gem," Kleinfelder said after Sunday's championship-clinching 8-7 win over Maryland. "Being a freshman and having the poise to pull the goalie out and stuff the ball in is something special...
...discovered this gem of enlightenment? Researchers at none other than Harvard University--a true model of an institution committed to undergraduate education, a place where everyone can expect the very best in personal academic attention...