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...consolidated his power; daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) is at Columbia University, across the river; Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) is running with a bad crowd; and Carmela - long-cheated-on Carmela - is sublimating her feelings like a good suburban housewife, through tennis lessons. (We also follow the Sopranos' Polish maid, one of a growing cast of peripheral East Europeans - Polish domestics, Russian strippers, Czech mobsters - who provide a modern-day connection to the Italian Americans' immigrant past...
...known in nearly as many countries as the rubberized Hollywood star. Takeshi pages pock the Worldwide Web, in Spanish, French, English, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish. His international admirers, seeing him churn out nine films in 11 years as actor-auteur?and perhaps catching him as an actor in art films (Nagisa Oshima's Gohatto), nihilist teen epics (Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale) and a Hollywood thriller (the Keanu Reeves Johnny Mnemonic)?may not know that films are a kind of hobby for Kitano. How could he have time to do anything else? But of course he does...
...tough time trying to stay in interior China. Already, the local authorities, after sending the deputy mayor to offer condolences, are making life somewhat difficult. Foreigners visiting the Morrisons are carefully vetted, apparently to limit publicity about the murder, which can only embarrass China as it tries to polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice...
...time it makes us feel bad because we don't match up." She recalls that the pressure to look good began in fourth grade, when a lot of her peers started worrying about their weight. Now a sixth-grader, Sarah has a formidable collection of lip gloss, nail polish and eye glitter (the only makeup her mother allows her to wear). Yet even she believes there should be limits: she would never wear some of Britney's more daring attire, she says, because "there's a difference between looking cool and looking like a slut...
...Wang's rise to prominence came at a time when real reforms mattered less than polish?the sort of polish provided by the grandly modern Bank of China headquarters he hired renowned architect I.M. Pei's firm to build in Beijing. Now authorities appear to be getting serious about repairing the banking industry's rotten foundation as well as its image. Regulators recently announced a set of bank reforms, including more stringent audit requirements and lending policies based on Western banking models, which could improve competitiveness. In addition, the National Audit Office revealed last week that it has uncovered more...