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Coincidentally, after many months of beautiful weather, it started to rain when we first heard of the attack on the World Trade Center. The temperature here plummeted, and so did our hearts. ANGELIQUE MICHEL Durban, South Africa...
...tiger shark generally hunts at night. It is an indiscriminate eater, "willing to try anything for food," says Rocky Strong, a shark biologist associated with the Jean-Michel Cousteau Institute. Not just fish, turtles and sea mammals but also dogs, boots, beer bottles and unopened cans of beans. Its teeth are serrated, with a notch to catch and cut through ligament or shell tissue...
WHAT IT'S ABOUT The eponymous deus ex machina (Sergi Lopez), who cheerfully greets a hard-pressed chap named Michel (Laurent Lucas) in the men's room of a highway rest stop. Harry claims they were at school together. Michel can't recall him, but he lets him into his life anyway. And why not? He has a miserable job, a sarcastic wife, three whining daughters and an auto that lacks air conditioning. Harry has mysterious amounts of time and money to lavish on them. Michel suddenly gets a new car, his grasping parents soon disappear, and the rest...
...WORKS This criminal comedy remains deliciously deadpan about the wages of psychopathy. We don't doubt that Michel and his brood deserve a somewhat better life. We can't help admiring the high, dry wit with which their (fairy) tale is recounted. We briefly wonder if Michel, as well as Harry, should pay some sort of price for his good fortune. But, nah--that would interfere with the knife-edged perversity of the piece, the sense we derive from it of fate's inexplicable workings, presented neither doomily nor ironically, but as a supercool form of realism...
...women on business, a trouble-free environment is key. "Female frequent travelers have concerns about their safety," says Michel Van der Hoeven, manager of Singapore's Gallery Evason. "They always ask to be close to the elevator, to reception." Gallery Evason was the first hotel in Asia to reserve a floor for women, served by female staff, when it opened this spring. Doubles start at $86; to reserve, call (65) 849-8686. Since then, the Novotel Atlantis in Shanghai's Pudong district has set aside its 43rd floor, under the name Club Femme. Doubles...