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JCVD His career and life on the skids, movie stud Jean-Claude Van Damme comes home to Brussels and gets tangled in a bank-heist drama. Director Mabrouk El Mechri weaves real and reel life into a dark meta-comedy. As for the star, he deserves not a black belt but an Oscar...
...retorted that the E.U. had given Sarkozy, who will be attending not just as President of France but also as the current holder of the E.U.'s rotating presidency, a "vague mandate" for Washington that reflected "the divergent opinions on the way things should be handled." Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, presumably piqued at the idea of his nation's tradition of bank secrecy being threatened by international finance regulation, pointedly noted that "those demanding far-reaching coordination of economic policies apply such rules themselves" - a jab at Sarkozy's own French budgets violating E.U. rules that limit deficits...
...promise has been at least 15 years in the making. Carpentier, having invented bio-engineered heart valves three decades ago, sought next to create the ultimate artificial heart. His efforts got a major boost in 1993 when the late French media and aerospace magnate Jean-Luc Lagardère and his Matra aviation group - which was later folded into EADS - offered materials and financial and technical support. Carpentier announced the final step of that collaboration last month, along with the prosthetic heart: the launch of Carmat, a new $9.2 million firm that will build and eventually market the heart. Carmat...
...looks like graft-convicted Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska will somehow retain his seat long enough to get expelled, and his ethically and temperamentally challenged porkmate, Don Young, was re-elected as well; Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota survived her McCarthyite rant on Hardball, and Ohio's similarly obnoxious Jean Schmidt once again avoided a well-deserved early retirement. Republicans even ousted four first-term Democrats before they could get entrenched in deep-red districts - not only the clearly doomed Casanova Tim Mahoney of Florida, but Nancy Boyda of Kansas, Dan Cazayoux of Louisiana and Nick Lampson of Texas...
...Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Pope's point man on relations with Islam, told the French Catholic daily La Croix this week that the meeting launches a "new chapter" in relations between Muslims and Catholics that must never gloss over the religions' fundamental differences. "This dialogue is not about finding the lowest common denominator, saying we're all alike. It reminds us instead the exigency of the truth, which for us is Jesus Christ," Tauran said. "You need to look, listen and respect the other. But then, affirm your own identity...