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...cartoons, dominate international coverage of the 61st Cannes Film Festival. But for the reviewers, there's the daily joy and slog of covering the 21 films in competition for the Palme d'Or and another 40 or so in satellite showcases. Here are critical snapshots of 10 films, from six countries, which tell more about the current, tenuous state of world cinema than the star-encrusted Hollywood fare. (Speaking of which, we went to a party last night where we both spoke at length with Mr. Eastwood, and one of us schmoozed with both halves of Brangelina...
...happening: R. Kelly, R&B's self-professed Pied Piper, is having his day(s) in court, facing charges that he videotaped himself having sex with an underage female. Now that it's on, the trial itself has already proven to be as much of a cliffhanger as the six years that lead...
...drop, that protection grows thinner. That's what happened in the current measles outbreaks in the western U.S., and that's what happened in Nigeria in 2001, when religious and political leaders convinced parents that polio vaccines were dangerous and their kids should not receive them. Over the next six years, not only did Nigerian infection rates increase 30-fold, but the disease also broke free and ranged out to 10 other countries, many of which had previously been polio-free...
When the U.K. housing market last hit the skids, with prices slipping by a third in the six years from 1989, unemployment and interest rates were both higher. This time around, the hope is that Britain's shortage of housing supply may help prevent such a bloody crash. The rate of housebuilding in Ireland and Spain - both of whose markets have overheated in recent months - more than doubled in the decade to 2006. In the U.K., the increase was just 12%. Demand ought to remain robust, says Ball, with "long-term rising incomes bashing against the cliff of tight supply...
...Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former History department chair Andrew D. Gordon, zoologist Farish A. Jenkins, former Earth and Planetary Science department chair Michael B. McElroy, and former Classics department chair Richard J. Tarrant—throwing the gender balance from eight women and 10 men to six women...