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...criminal matter. Fitzgerald said that her father, Robert, was kept in the hospital overnight because the doctors wanted to run tests to make sure no internal bleeding took place. “They also kept in him to make sure he hadn’t suffered any mild heart attacks,” she said. Mekonnen said that the shuttle bus driver acted quickly in response to the accident. “The bus driver did a good job, he stopped right when he heard the screams,” he said. “If he?...
This has been a very mild session of the Cannes Film Festival - not just in the weather, but in the selection of films and the response of the 4,000 journalists here. The films on display in the first week had their partisans and their detractors, without provoking much acrimonious dispute. But reviewers do love to dispute each other, and the world premiere of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette gave us the chance finally to argue over a movie...
...unanimous critical acclaim. A few name directors are thought to have been coasting (Pedro Almodóvar's Volver) or tailspinning (Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation) with their latest works. Some directors of promise, like the Turk auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan with his Climates, have brought works earning mild applause. We see and we shrug...
...weather is usually fair and mild with intermittent patches of gorgeousness and a lovely breeze; the Mediterranean Mistral here is more a whisper than a roar. For a break from the films, take lunch al fresco at a café across from the Palais and gaze at the beautiful people walking by; Cannes at Festival time has the world's densest patch of pulchritude. Or, if you want to run up a bill higher than the French national debt, sip a kir on the terrace of the criminally posh Majestic Hotel and watch the glitterati glide past; many of them...
...That mild thaw ended not long after Bush labeled Iran a member of the "axis of evil," chilling relations with then President Mohammed Khatami, Ahmadinejad's reform-minded predecessor. But as late as May 2003, the two sides discussed swapping members of the Iranian exile group Mujahedin-e Khalq (M.E.K.) whom the U.S. had detained after the invasion of Iraq for al-Qaeda prisoners held by Iran. But the talks ended after the U.S. received intelligence suggesting Iran's complicity in a terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia. Former officials like Flynt Leverett, who headed Middle East policy at Bush...