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...market are vulnerable to an international economic downturn, especially compared with many of its Gulf neighbors. As the region's premier business, transportation and tourism hub, it is by definition more entwined with the global economy. And in tight times, Dubai lacks the windfall oil profits that have enabled sister emirate Abu Dhabi, for example, to amass a financial cushion in sovereign wealth funds totaling hundreds of billions of dollars...
...America. Princess leaps forward a generation, depicting the challenges confronting a tech-savvy Chinese exchange student in Nebraska who discovers she's pregnant and flees to San Francisco. "I like the idea of a parallel showing of A Thousand Years and Princess," says Wang, who considers the two works "sister films." "In some festivals, they've shown the two films back to back; in France, they've shown them side by side in the same multiplex...
...until an unlikely friendship is born between Lina, played by Saoirse Ronan, and Doon, played by Harry Treadaway. The pair discovers one of the city’s most ancient secrets and the key to their survival. Their adventure, fueled by Lina’s love for her baby sister and Doon’s desire to help the human race, takes place under, around, and through the city, unveiling the secret escape from the City of Ember. Ronan, who previously earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in “Atonement,” has proven...
...psychologically vulgar and manipulative campaign" will eventually boomerang on him. Montenegro says the personal nature of the attacks against her have been so crass that even the machista element of Nicaraguan society is rejecting what many view as a cowardly persecution of women. "Men think: that could be my sister, or my wife," she said...
...victims of extreme leftists who terrorized Italy during the 1970s and 1980s weren't outraged enough by Sarkozy's climb-down on Petrella, their fury was presumably further stoked at learning the back story of the move: Sarkozy's Italian-born wife, Carla Bruni, and her sister, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, had lobbied the President not to extradite the gravely ill Petrella to Rome - it even fell to the sisters to personally break the news of that reprieve to the former terrorist. "We could not let this woman die," Bruni told the daily Libération Monday in explaining her intervention...