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...Even Fornes' death doesn?t help Towle?s case with the Church. "The sacramental seal on confession extends beyond the grave," Beal says. "The only thing that could conceivably release the confessor from the sacramental seal - and this is somewhat disputed - would be if the penitent released the confessor. But in this case, since the young man is dead, we don?t know if that happened. Presumably...
...presence of Western peacekeeping troops in the Balkans has stabilized Bosnia and Kosovo (except, of course, for those unfortunate enough to belong to any of the territory?s non-Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely return ultra-nationalist governments who show little interest in moving the territory towards any sort of multicultural melting pot. And in Kosovo, even though the moderate Ibrahim Rugova trounced the hawks of the erstwhile Kosovo Liberation Army at the polls in local elections, it is those hawks that continue...
...WORKS This criminal comedy remains deliciously deadpan about the wages of psychopathy. We don't doubt that Michel and his brood deserve a somewhat better life. We can't help admiring the high, dry wit with which their (fairy) tale is recounted. We briefly wonder if Michel, as well as Harry, should pay some sort of price for his good fortune. But, nah--that would interfere with the knife-edged perversity of the piece, the sense we derive from it of fate's inexplicable workings, presented neither doomily nor ironically, but as a supercool form of realism...
...trading at six-month lows against the greenback. This makes their products cheaper overseas, which would normally boost exports. But that hasn't happened. Korea and Malaysia are planning fiscal stimulus packages a la Japan. But as Japan's record shows, pumping cash into public works projects is a somewhat expensive way to keep an economy crippled. For the most part, Asia's governments and corporate leaders are pinning their hopes on optimistic forecasts of a mild U.S. recovery in the fourth quarter of this year. "We are in a pretty rocky bottom right now," says Han Yung Jung...
...Feng is an ordinary guy of a somewhat heightened sort?he's brutally no-nonsense, unsentimental, funny and earthy to the point of raunchiness?who makes movies that are very much like their creator. And they have made Feng China's most successful contemporary film director. Three of Feng's recent films?Sorry, Baby (1999), Be There, Be Square (1998) and Party A, Party B (1997)?rank in China's top-five grossing movies to date. Now the jumble-toothed, shorts-wearing, former stage designer is setting his sights on winning viewers outside China. Last month, he wrapped...