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...onto the A list. Millennium Mambo put Shu Qi under the tutelage of director Hou Hsiao-hsien, a serious cine-aficionado who almost single-handedly put Taiwanese art films on the global map. (The two plan to start work on another project later this year.) Mambo didn't unduly impress the critics or crowds at its opening at Cannes?everyone was hoping for a Crouching Tiger repeat?but Shu Qi's performance did. This film was essentially made for her, and her character carries the action. We see the spare, raw, brittle Shu Qi rather than the ditzy spray...
TIME.com: Hoping to placate European criticism over his positions on efforts to curb global warming, President Bush on Monday announced new research initiatives to study the problem but reiterated his rejection of the Kyoto treaty. Will the latest announcement impress the Europeans...
...Anything Washington does to duck the issue of mandatory emission cuts is unlikely to impress the Europeans. Italy's new conservative prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has pushed the European Union to take American proposals more seriously. And that may mean the Europeans are more willing to take another look at proposals floated by the Clinton administration for trading emissions-rights and so on. But the question will be to what extent is Bush willing to back away from his vow that in addressing global warming nothing can be done to harm the U.S. economy. That struck people here as selfish...
...probably do their reading in the Quincy House library or their suites in Mather, if they do their reading at all. But all of us take our classes amid red brick buildings with crisp white trim, fountains, statues and lavish green lawns. This grandeur is not solely designed to impress potential donors. Rather, the loveliness of the campus mingles with and enhances learning—the reason that critic David Denby has argued that beautiful surroundings are vitally important for education. The columns of Widener bespeak a reverence for the books within; the gleaming tower of Memorial Hall...
...sluggish record sales, he can still get in the news for something AHMED AL-ABBADI Jordanian M.P. bites off part of rival politician's ear in a parliamentary brawl. MORGAN PRESSEL Twelve-year-old golfer is youngest ever to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. Maybe this will impress that totally hot guy in pre-algebra