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...France now concurs, was established at the opening of the trial this week in Paris of the self-styled "Gang of Barbarians" charged with kidnapping, torturing and then killing the young Jewish man. And although acknowledging Halimi's death as a hate crime may seem like stating the obvious, it's a far from insignificant detail in a country that has tended to minimize the bias aspect of past violence against Jews...
...Stars. Since TCM's mission is to rekindle old Hollywood glamour, it makes sense to focus on a star a day for the month of August. Such a scheme can lead to laziness - drag out the old faves for the 30th time - but the staff often spotlights less obvious names, actors whose careers merit a close look: Marie Dressler, Constance Bennett, Peter Lorre and Trevor Howard all have shone in what amount to one-day retrospectives. In June, TCM will try a similar tack with the stars behind the camera: two directors a day for 30 days...
...Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first part of Bush's gamble paid off - there was no bruising confirmation fight. He won Senate approval by a vote of 90-9. But once Souter was on the court, it wasn't long before it became obvious that he couldn't be counted on to solidify an ever emerging but never quite stable conservative majority anchored at the time by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, and often supported by the more moderate William Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...polished musicianship and a luxurious pace. “Shake Shake Mama,” a blues workout as simple as its title, would be right at home on “’Love and Theft.’” The remainder is largely more obvious mimicry—“Forgetful Heart,” a warmed-over, condensed version of “Ain’t Talkin’”; “Life Is Hard,” a sparer, more stilted version of “Spirit...
...available positions is incredibly limited. While OCS excitedly announces on its website that over 25 different industries were represented in last year’s OCR, it acknowledges that the companies represented are heavily weighted to the consulting and, at least until this year, financial sectors. This is an obvious fact to anyone who has ever used the program...