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...night, years ago, a man and his wife, - childhood sweethearts who remain deeply in love - repair to an isolated lake for a swim and some love-making. At a certain point she slips off the dock for one last dip. After a moment, screams are heard - then an ominous silence. Later, her body - or should we say "a" body - is recovered and identified by her father, who happens to be a policeman. Alex (Francois Cluzet), the husband, is suspected of the crime, but it is pinned on some serial killers who have been operating in the neighborhood. Now, eight years...
...this year, the red-winged blackbird hysteria seems louder than ever. Joggers along Lake Michigan have gotten plucked. Workers on the edge of the city's downtown business district have lunched on street corners instead of park benches to avoid becoming part of a reenactment of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic The Birds. Experts say it appears urban red wings are more aggressive than their rural counterparts, partly because the city birds are particularly sensitive to (or fed up with) excessive human encroachment on their turf...
This is about the time the birds are nesting after returning to the Upper Midwest from their southern winter retreats. The red-winged variety is particularly attracted to marshy terrain and large bodies of water, like Lake Michigan (the shores of which are lined with jogging and cycling paths). Male red wings are usually 10 inches long, and weigh just 2 ounces. They quickly establish their territory - sometime among the trees surrounding urban ponds, or in suburban neighborhoods. They're followed by a throng of a comparatively secretive female lovers (yes, male red wings are polygamous). Females tend to carry...
...federal officials have advised citizens confronted head-on by a red wing to simply stare back into its eyes. Better yet, they advise, avoid known red wing territories altogether. But in a city that cherishes every rare minute of sunshine, it's unlikely many will stay away from Lake Michigan's jogging paths. In the meantime, they'll simply have to duck from The Birds...
...First-time candidate Jason Chaffetz defeated Cannon by a margin of 60 to 40%. Chaffetz told supporters after, "I think we've been given a mandate to return the Republican Party to its core conservative principles." Cannon blamed low voter turnout for the defeat, telling the Salt Lake Tribune that what happened was "a revolution. A revolution by the people sitting at home...