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...would suggest as my nominee Angela Merkel, Germany's first female Chancellor and the first woman to lead the country since it became a modern nation in 1871. She is governing well despite the fact that she finds herself in the tough political situation of having an uncertain political base. CORAZON AQUINO 1986 >MUHAMMAD YUNUS Aquino served as President of the Philippines, succeeding Ferdinand Marcos...
DIED. Jesus Blancornelas, 70, relentless investigative reporter known as the godfather of modern Mexican journalism, who exposed drug cartels and government corruption and survived an assassination attempt in 1997; of a chronic illness; in Tijuana...
DIED. Robert Altman, 81, prolific, curmudgeonly, irreplaceable renegade whose movies both defined and mocked the modern American spirit; in Los Angeles. Arriving in Hollywood after copiloting B-24 bombers in World War II, the Kansas City native kicked around the industry for nearly a quarter-century before directing MASH (1970), a ribald Army comedy set in the Korean War but offering a cynical take on U.S. involvement in Vietnam. MASH set the Altman attitude and technique: sprawling frescoes with crawling cameras, dozens of characters, overlapping dialogue, and a belief that life was way too messy and complex for ordinary film...
Part of the problem we have with evaluating risk, scientists say, is that we're moving through the modern world with what is, in many respects, a prehistoric brain. We may think we've grown accustomed to living in a predator-free environment in which most of the dangers of the wild have been driven away or fenced off, but our central nervous system--evolving at a glacial pace--hasn't got the message...
...into her first big commercial movie since Titanic, Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday. Winslet plays Iris, a retiring English wallflower who swaps houses for Christmas with Cameron Diaz's overachieving Hollywood type. This is the first film in which Winslet has ever played who she actually is, a modern young British woman. But Iris is Winslet too. "You, I can tell, are a leading lady," the completely irresistible 90-year-old Eli Wallach chides her. "But for some reason, you're behaving like the best friend...