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...bloodbath at Beslan came scarcely a week after twin suicide-bombings brought down two Russian airliners and a third wrought havoc outside a Moscow subway station, leaving more than 100 dead. The latest wave of attacks appeared calculated to mock President Putin's claim that he had defeated the Chechen separatist insurgency, and that the situation in the rebel region had was returning to normal following the election of Moscow's handpicked candidate as president of the region, in a poll widely criticized by observers. Indeed, the election was necessitated by the fact that Moscow's previous pick to lead...
...friendly organizers at the Garden had taken care of that too: All of the water fountains in the arena were conveniently running dry. This proved a problem for the medical team in section 66, members of which complained that dehydrated delegates had needed treatment at the First Aid station, along with a few “elderly delegates who had drank too much.” Easy, cowboy...
...movie. It follows teenage runaway Heidi (Abbie Cornish), caught in bed with her mother's boyfriend, to Jindabyne, where she befriends a lonely hotel owner (Lynette Curran), finds a job at a petrol station, and falls in love with Joe (Sam Worthington), the son of well-to-do farmers. But there's a lot more to the film than its plot. Shortland, who studied fine arts at Sydney University before going on to graduate from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, gives an impression of teenage life as textured and poetic as Heidi's scrapbook. Stones thrown into...
...film of looking and seeing, of substance and feeling. In a pivotal scene, the sleazy father of her service-station friend Bianca (Hollie Andrew) drives Heidi to Lake Jindabyne at night and points out how the original town was flooded by the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme: "All that sitting out there," he says, "under the surface." Think of the film as a snow dome, its characters trapped under the glass of their emotion. There's Bianca's young brother, unable to empathize with others because of Asperger's syndrome. At the Siesta Inn, where Heidi takes refuge, the plucky...
...folks in passenger cars. But the government's recently released rollover test results for the 2004 model year show that SUVs vary widely in their tippiness, giving buyers more incentive to shop around. Such statistics may well accelerate the popularity of crossovers, the new breed of bulked-up station wagons flooding the market that combine car and SUV elements. Built on car platforms, not on truck frames like most SUVs, crossovers ride lower to the ground and boast better maneuverability and gas mileage than truck-based SUVs do (though crossovers typically aren't rugged enough for serious off-roading). Many...