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Serious actress, sex goddess. Movies haven't seen that combo since the era of Sophia Loren and Claudia Cardinale, when European stars commuted between homegrown and Hollywood films. A later generation had less luck: Isabelle Huppert's first big U.S. film was Heaven's Gate, and Isabelle Adjani's was Ishtar--two signal flops of the '80s. Penelope Cruz has yet to look comfortable in a U.S. film. Bellucci knows the odds, and she has the ambition. "It's so difficult for a European actress to have the chance to work internationally," she says. "But if you want to make...
...contrast to big commercial sites such as eBay, Craig's List has kept its homegrown, grass-roots feel. Customers in cities like San Francisco often complete their transactions in person. Quirky listings abound. "I have a dead raccoon. Looks like a male. About 15 lbs. ... Will sell for cash to highest bidder or trade for Six Feet Under--The Complete First Season on DVD," reads one. In the community section, members post everything from grocery-store etiquette to tips on how to give a cat a pill. In the forums, visitors rant against the projected war on Iraq and seek...
...linked Ansar al-Islam against the local Kurdish authorities. The fight for control of a tiny sliver of northern Iraq pitches fighters loyal to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which rules the eastern part of the territory liberated from Saddam Hussein in 1991, against Ansar, a small cadre of homegrown Islamic militants supported, trained and reinforced by Osama bin Laden's organization. And today, as a Bush administration envoy met Iraqi opposition leaders at Erbil, some 150 miles north of Halabja, Ansar played rough...
...Southern Tigers, who are in first place, have two African-American imports?Nick Sheppard, from Pepperdine via the Harlem Globetrotters, and Jason Dixon, out of Liberty University by way of Turkey, Israel, Argentina, Sweden and Cyprus. But as Healthy Ma says, it's a team game. The visitors' homegrown guards are as quick as cats, darting untouched among the grasping Shanghainese...
...Pakistani authorities plainly wanted?and delivered?a speedy resolution of the Pearl murder case, partly to please the Bush Administration, which viewed the affair as a test of President Pervez Musharraf's willingness to crack down on homegrown terrorists. But with the Pakistani government's rush to bring Saeed and his three co-defendants to trial and close the case, much has remained a mystery?including the identity of the man who actually wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl. However, TIME has learned that crucial fresh evidence is emerging from two Islamic militants whom Pakistani police and paramilitary rangers have...