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...adjusted to each other?s thoughts.? Explaining the Prix du Jury (typically given to a film, not a performer) that went to Irma P. Hall, lead actress of the Coen brothers? comedy ?The Ladykillers,? Tarantino said, ?Tilda wanted to give her a Force of Nature prize.? The Prix du Scenario (screenplay) prize to the French drama ?Comme une image? was, Quentin said, ?one of the easier awards to give.? As for ?Fahrenheit,? he stressed that the prize was given for film artistry, not politics. He added that all the entries had adherents: ?No film was far away...
...were doing reductional drills - targeting one segment of a movement. Many of today's cricketers, Chappell suspects, don't know how it feels to be immersed in practice. But is he seriously suggesting they should be playing at the beach? "Absolutely. They should be doing a lot more game-scenario training, something that challenges them in ways the nets...
Human-rights advocates say the lesson from last week is that degrading or cruel treatment is never O.K., not even if thousands of lives are at stake. Says Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch and a former federal prosecutor: "Proponents of torture always cite the ticking-bomb scenario. The problem is that the situation is infinitely elastic. You start by applying it to a terrorist suspect, and soon you're applying it to his next-door neighbor who perhaps might know something." --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington...
...lends tremendous stability to an investment portfolio. So don't fall victim to the rate jitters. REITs can thrive so long as any interest-rate climb is slow and takes place over an extended period, says Christopher Haley, a REIT analyst at Wachovia Securities. And that's just the scenario many economists anticipate, as the rebounding economy finally generates jobs and pushes up the price of everything from aluminum to zinc. The best REITs focus on apartment buildings, where vacancy rates are poised to start falling next year...
That said, there is a scenario in which you might want to sell. Because the run-up in real estate has been so brisk, this asset class may now occupy too much of your overall investment mix. Excluding the roof over your head, a reasonable allocation to real estate is 5% to 10%. In the past 10 years, a portfolio of half bonds and half stocks would have turned $10,000 into $30,056. But a portfolio of 10% REITs, 49% stocks and 41% bonds would have risen...