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...sorceress lolling among snakes--the sexiest Gorgon, whose stare melts the screen--she spits out seductive invectives in a crypto-Carpathian accent; Olympias may be Philip's wife, but she is Dracula's daughter. And Jolie inhabits her with an awful grandeur. The archetypal housewife furious at her husband's philandering, she tells Philip, "In my womb I carried my avenger." Jolie's real vengeance is to invade the film's story and conquer it. This man's movie is a woman's triumph after all. --By Richard Corliss
...abducted her in Baghdad on Oct. 19; as reported by her family and Arabic news network al-Jazeera, which received a video that appeared to show her being shot in the head. The Irish-born aid worker fell in love with Iraq after moving there with her Iraqi-born husband in 1972. Through Saddam Hussein's rule and Gulf War bombings she stayed, learning Arabic and converting to Islam. She became a spokeswoman for Iraqi children suffering in the wake of the Gulf...
Carmel's artistic community is canvas-shredding mad. "The art galleries bring a lot of people to town. They are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg," says Linda Miller, who runs a gallery with her husband Jim, a painter, on Ocean Avenue, the city's main drag. Mayor Sue McCloud is unmoved. "We need a more diverse economy," she says...
...years, and Fable (for Xbox; $44.95) is his latest attempt to grapple with it. Early on, the scene is set in the village of your character's childhood, where you have the freedom to choose whether or not to take the side of a bully, rat out a cheating husband or dutifully watch a valuable set of crates. The consequences stretch into your adulthood, by which time you will be either a noble hero for hire or a terrifying rogue. The game is far from perfect--there aren't nearly enough diversions from the main story line, for one thing...
Parents are making changes too. Alice and Craig Tillman enforce a library-like atmosphere--no telephone calls, music, TV or video games--while their four kids do homework. Karen Cross, Sterling's mother, says she and her husband were angry and confused when Sterling's older brother and sister got poor grades. "Knowing it's a good school system, you assume that once you show that you're educated and involved parents, the teachers will take it from there," she says. "So when the problems persist, you think it can only be because you're black." Gradually, through conversations with...