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...they were wrong in the first place to have limited the potential use of WMD to defending the regime. Hutton accepted this; others were skeptical. Paul Routledge, in the Daily Mirror, was typical of the critics: "Nothing shocks us anymore. Mr. Blair done nuffink. Alastair Campbell is a plaster saint ? It beggars belief Lord Hutton could find these miscreants not guilty." The risk for Blair now is that the very size of the victory awarded by Hutton will provoke a destabilizing backlash. An NOP poll taken the day Hutton issued his report found that 49% of the public considered...
...music performers, sleuthing Nicholas Tse?s traffic citations, Maggie Cheung?s potential suitors and the cavorting of various pop-star Twins and Boy?z. Transcribing and translating all this for English-language HK hankerers is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan?s own Sanney Leung. With his ?staff of ten ... fingers,? Saint Sanney synopsizes the day?s gossip, provides links to HK news and reviews (including mine from TIME?s Asian edition) and runs readers? polls like ?I Wouldn?t Mind Being Married for 55 Hours to...? (the winners: actor Louis Koo for the women, Twins? Gillian Chung for men). I use the site...
...story Henry Grunwald tells in his novel A Saint, More or Less (Random House; 234 pages) is a bit more complicated. It's based on an actual historical incident. Around 1594, a young woman of mysterious origins named Nicole Tavernier arrived in Paris and rapidly acquired a reputation for extraordinary faith and mystical healing powers. In a matter of weeks she had been taken up by the aristocracy, enjoyed an audience with the archbishop and organized a grand religious procession through the city...
...Winn-Dixie, in which the folksy jam-band leader plays a pet-store worker who is also "a guitar-strumming felon," Matthews says. "At least in that department I was somewhat qualified." The Wayne Wang film, due out next August, stars newcomer ANNASOPHIA ROBB and oldcomer Eva Marie Saint. Matthews, who dabbled in local theater before his music career took off, says he was reluctant to play a musician in his screen debut. "If I'm going to stumble blindly around the dark room of acting, I'd like to do it with as little common ground with my other...
Representatives of the monastery have been seeking the bells’ return for almost 20 years, and intensified their quest last year before the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Danil, the Monastery’s patron saint...