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...flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct line to his commander, Colonel Marcel Aviv. They spoke quickly, then Aviv listened in as Mor guided a helicopter into place above the target. At Mor's command, five missiles hammered into the refugee camp. Two hit the upper floors of the rough, cinder-block home of Omar Da'ajna. The Palestinian cook later said...
...Marcel Proust wrote great gossip. His epic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), is artful celebrity journalism about the beautiful people of Paris in the early 20th century. This was also when movies came of age; and the novel's shuffling of tenses, from present to past to conditional, has its film equivalent in the flashback--the lightning stroke of emotional teleportation that brings a memory instantly, poignantly, to the mind...
...chic, assured film that Raul Ruiz has made of the novel's final volume, Le temps retrouve (Time Regained), is an ideal Proust in pictures. It roams through prewar drawing rooms, attending to whispers of malice and amour. A brilliant man (Marcello Mazzarella, as Marcel) talks to a ravishing woman (Emmanuelle Beart, as Gilberte) of an old wound. "Heartbreak can kill," he says, "but leaves no trace." The roue Charlus (John Malkovich) takes his sexual pleasures at the business end of a whip. These characters are often crushed by the burden of glamour, but the film isn't. It wears...
...MARCEL MARCEAU Top mime settles lawsuit with London theater company. Now take the deal, and shut...
...Translation: it has dawned on them that working you to death may hurt their profits. "It costs us 150% of an annual salary to replace an employee in terms of retraining a new person, the turbulence it causes in a unit and the impact on our client," says Denny Marcel, associate director of the burnout-prevention unit at Ernst & Young. Miller calls the accounting firm, which offers three to five vacation weeks to its 20,000-plus employees, one of the better companies when it comes to lightening the load...