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...adding to a cacophony of presidential woes, I happened to check the calendar: it was only the first week of October 2005. George W. Bush's second term was less than nine months old. He has about 1,200 days left in office, a span greater than the entire length of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Time sure flies when you're having...
Theyskens, who is resuscitating the stuffy old French house Rochas, which has been more famous for perfume than clothing, set fashion on a more genteel course last season when he introduced a turn-of-the-century silhouette with floor-length skirts and short, fitted jackets. This season he continued along those lines but added to the mix soft silk pantsuits that looked completely modern...
...cinematic display of favoritism--the top bank regulator chumming it up with someone he is supposed to regulate--reinforced Italy's nearly mythic status as Europe's most rigged economy. The scandal created a major crisis for the government of businessman Silvio Berlusconi, itself no paragon of arm's-length transactions. Yet even Berlusconi finally found enough moral high ground to call on Fazio to resign his lifetime post after Finance Minister Domenico Siniscalco quit in protest when his calls for Fazio to step down had no effect. Siniscalco's replacement, Giulio Tremonti, who clashed with Fazio in an earlier...
...latest work to sprout from Park’s fertile mind is “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the first full-length feature starring the titular team. Their initial appearances in a series of celebrated short films in the ’90s have amassed a fan base that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit...
Zac’s zany antics at public appearances led to his portrayal in the media as a poster-boy for Ritalin. Nowadays, the bubbly youth with shoulder-length blonde hair is nowhere to be found; with his cropped ’do and reserved mannerisms, Zac is the consummate professional as he explains the band’s newly distinguished rock edge...