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...hr. 10 min., Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa completed the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest from base camp last week, shaving more than two hours off the old record. Pemba Dorje's feat was one of survival as well as speed: in the same week, four climbers died on Everest...
...Olympic golds, including two from 2000, when he became the first man ever to sweep the 20-km and 50-km races. He hasn't lost at 50 km, his specialty, since 1999. And he's set a new record in his last two 50-km races, clocking 3 hr. 36 min. 3 sec. at the World Championships in Paris last August. Korzeniowski, 35, admits his career has turned out so well that "I could finish happily any day." So why bother with Athens? "I still have Olympic dreams," he says, flashing the first of many smiles. "I'm giving...
...style, with Tom Hanks, Uma Thurman, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Sean Penn and Julie Andrews gracing the red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais. The film selection held some sweet surprises, such as Paolo Sorrentino's deadpan crime comedy Consequences of Love, and a 4 hr. 38 min. Palestinian drama, Yousry Nasrallah's The Gate of the Sun, which overflowed with passion, smart dialogue and a knowing, dreamy poignance. Jean-Luc Godard's Our Music, about the Israel-Palestine conundrum, concluded its dark ruminations by sending its lead character to a heaven patrolled, without apparent irony...
Some of Achilles' nerve comes in handy for anyone trying to make Homer's Iliad sing and swagger in a 2-hr. 40-min. movie. Director Wolfgang Petersen, writer David Benioff and their cohort just about pull it off. In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war. Old men plot; young men die; strong women weep...
...ruckus in France ; the UNSA union called it "organized racketeering with the firm's cash." Quizzed about the payout, Landau said it wasn't part of the deal with Sanofi and that he hadn't "had time to make the calculation" of its size. Heinz-Werner Meier, Aventis' HR chief in Germany , told German daily Die Welt that the payout was "absolutely customary by international standards, and even at the low end in the U.S. " Even so, it's a pill that some shareholders are finding hard to swallow. - By Peter Gumbel No More Bale-Outs In the first ever...