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...blithe spirit of instant perishability, I offer some hints on candidates for the top prize, or Palme d'Or, or Golden Palm (as in palm trees, which line the beachfront in this Riviera resort), at the 58th Cannes Film Festival, shortly drawing to a happy, exhausted close...
...takes a gorgeous bright Sunday like this one to remind movie people visiting from afar that Cannes has a life outside the Film Festival. It is a resort town of 70,000 people, most of whom live nowhere near the beach. But on lovely weekends, the locals, many of them as beautiful as movie stars, come down from the hills for a family stroll on the seaside Croisette. They pack the public beaches to get an early start on their suntans. And as a splendid May afternoon wanes and time nears for the Film Festival's first evening show...
...send aid across the Demilitarized Zone to help Pyongyang modernize and?it was hoped?gradually become more self-sufficient by substituting capitalism for Marxism. Seoul is building a massive factory complex in the North Korean city of Kaesong, not far from Ilsan, and South Korean tourists regularly visit a resort enclave on North Korea's southeastern coast. Last year, 27,000 southerners visited the North, up from 16,000 in 2003. While the U.S. pushes for economic sanctions, South Korean trade with North Korea soared from $403 million in 2001 to $697 million in 2004, according to South Korean government...
...question, Kerkorian still gets a kick out of high-stakes deals. In 2000 his MGM Grand bought Steve Wynn's Mirage Resorts for $6.4 billion, and last June Kerkorian snapped up the Mandalay Resort Group for $4.8 billion, giving him control of 11 hotel-casinos on the Strip and more than half the gambling action. Last year Kerkorian sold his stake in the MGM movie studio for $5 billion to a consortium led by Sony. In fact, Kerkorian's dalliance with MGM over the years reads like a sordid back-lot love story. He first bought shares in the studio...
...you’ve been faithfully following this technique but still aren’t seeing results after a full 10 days, it may be necessary to resort to Plan B: Direct Communication. That does not entail complete honesty: If you say, “Would you stop slathering my face with your gross tongue already?” there’s a 96 percent chance that she will slap...