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...jury that was expected to reward eccentricity and innovation (because it was headed by iconoclastic American auteur David Lynch) gave the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong...
...base in the Rukum district west of Katmandu. Further clashes with the rebels, who have been fighting since 1996 to overthrow the constitutional monarchy, left 10 more dead. THE PHILIPPINES Bounty Bid More than a year after Abu Sayyaf rebels took three Americans hostage, the U.S. government offered a reward of up to $5 million for the capture of the Muslim extremist group's leaders. Weeks after the rebel organization grabbed the hostages from a holiday resort on the southern Palawan island, they beheaded one of the captives, Guillermo Sobero. They are still holding missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham...
...crowds cheer and rock stars gyrate next week to celebrate Elizabeth II's 50 years on the British throne, the question sounds churlish, even impertinent. Surely we should let the Brits have their fun, let the 76-year-old monarch-soul of probity and dutiful service-have her reward for a life sentence of grand ceremonies and banal conversations, without laboring to figure out why, in the 21st century, she ought to exist. But the question would not sound strange to Elizabeth herself. She has been grappling with it her whole life. And, in her implacable way, answering it because...
...part of that absolute scale. In other words, once a student has submitted a thesis or equivalent project that reflects sophisticated, individual thinking, and has backed up that project with a record of good grades, it is unfair to suggest that splitting hairs over GPAs is the way to reward a chosen...
Honors are not a comparative tool meant to separate the great from the good in a personal way; they are a reward for four years of hard work at a high level. Those deserving should earn them...