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...Asia, for Cannes, often meant what was once called Asia Minor. Iran, with its handsomely spare dramas, folkloric but sophisticated, became the Asian nation of choice, and Abbas Kiarostami the cinematic imam. Kiarostami had two films in Cannes this year: an autobiographical documentary, 10 on Ten, and a Minimalist essay, Five, comprising five shots of a shoreline. No dialogue, no story, but, for the attentive viewer, much visual wit. One shot featured ducks waddling from left to right on the beach for a few minutes; then, suddenly, two ducks seem to change their minds and head back the other...
...season only a few months off, relief organizations rushed to assist the poorest country in the western hemisphere. "A few months ago we couldn't move because of security," said Guy Gavreau of the U.N. World Food Program. "Now we can't move because the roads are destroyed." A minor earthquake that struck late Saturday caused little additional damage. - By Peter Prengaman A Silenced Voice SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Gunmen shot dead Dusko Jovanovic, the controversial editor of Montenegro 's conservative daily Dan newspaper. Dan was frequently critical of the coalition government of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. New Terror SAUDI...
Kevin Youkilis, the Red Sox rookie third baseman who attended the same high school as Morgalis in Cincinnati—and whose on-base exploits are well-recorded in the Michael Lewis bestseller, Moneyball—gave Hendricks the heads-up on the minor league life. Garciaparra gave him hitting tips. David Ortiz, the larger-than-life Red Sox first baseman, gave the two Harvard seniors plenty to laugh about...
...legislators, joined by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which monitors the Geneva Conventions, say these new rules violated the treaty and sowed the seeds for abuse. The Senate Armed Services Committee released a one-page document, "Interrogation Rules of Engagement," which the Pentagon claimed was produced by minor officers in the prison's military-intelligence brigade, that went into effect right after Miller's visit. The right column of the page outlined rough practices that could be used if Sanchez personally approved them. The list included sleep deprivation, stress positions, lengthy isolation, dietary manipulation and the presence...
...aside concerns about such minor matters as sex, money and career. Lynne Truss is here to help you with the really important issues--such as the proper placement of apostrophes, the six uses of the comma and the preservation of the hyphen. Truss, a British journalist and novelist, is a self-proclaimed stickler for punctuation. Not for its own sake, mind you, but because, as she writes in Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Gotham Books; 209 pages), "without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning...