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...Monday's Delta flight from New York City to Nice, France, was filled with pilgrims to the 61st Cannes Film Festival. In addition to movie company executives and programmers from Gotham cultural institutions, the plane carried a passel of people whose job it is to evaluate films, and for whom Cannes is both the start of the liturgical year and a two-week binge of international cinema. Among the critics on board were J. Hoberman (The Village Voice), A.O. Scott (New York Times), Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly), Leah Rozen (People), Melissa Anderson (Time Out New York) and your two TIME.com...
...Monday, rumors had spread that she was 're-evaluating' her career. And today, speaking at the Justine Centre named after her in Limelette, just outside the Belgian capital, Henin confirmed that after two decades in the game she'd lost her passion for playing. "It's the end of a wonderful adventure but it's something I have been thinking about for a long time," she said. "I have experienced everything I could have. I have lived completely for tennis. I am relieved and proud of what I achieved...
...just stopped a car with three men suspected in a mid-day bank robbery when one of the men opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, killing Liczbinski in the middle of a residential street. One suspect was arrested, another was killed in a shootout shortly thereafter, but by Monday May 5th, police had been unable to locate the third...
Already he suffers in the shadow of Iraq's most popular nationalist, Moqtada al-Sadr. Fighting between U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and guerrilla fighters in Sadr City flared again Monday despite the announcement over the weekend of a cease-fire. On the afternoon Maliki spoke, sporadic clashes in Sadr City left at least 11 dead and 19 wounded - and opened the question of whether the Prime Minister has the ability to make peace at all anymore...
Sources close to Hizballah said that dozens of the group's fighters deployed from southern Beirut to the Qmatiyeh area on Monday night, taking up position in the woods and dense undergrowth surrounding the village to protect its residents from Druze incursions. Hizballah is thought to have lost 13 fighters in the battle with the Druze militants, a significant number for one of the world's most professional guerrilla armies. Hizballah militants told TIME that the Druze fighters had fought them from dug-in positions prepared well in advance of last week's outbreak of violence between the supporters...