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...Steven Spielberg takes a breather from sci-fi/adventure romps and historical morality plays to dust off his moribund ‘lost boy’ conceit, reigniting it to power this breezy, rambling 1960s-set caper. Leonardo DiCaprio spends the movie perpetrating a richly entertaining string of identity cons and check fraud that Spielberg tempers with rather obvious meditations on the state of the nuclear family. Amidst the mischief and philosophizing, Tom Hanks, as the dry, wry FBI man tailing DiCaprio, ends up stealing the movie by internalizing his ‘decent everyman’ persona. Hanks begins...
...EXECUTED. LOBSANG DHONDUP, 28, pro-independence activist and former Tibetan monk convicted in a secret trial for inciting separatism and carrying out a string of bombings; in Sichuan province. Dhondup was held incommunicado for several months and denied adequate legal representation, according to Amnesty International...
...string of brutal cases has sparked growing fear. A cement-truck driver named Hua Ruizhuo was executed last year for picking up prostitutes near the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, handcuffing them in his van, raping them and dumping their bodies in rubbish heaps around the city. He killed 14 women. Around the same time, police in China's northeastern province of Jilin captured Piao Yongzhi, who murdered an undisclosed number of longhaired women, keeping their tresses in bags at his house. He flayed the face of one victim, cooked...
...seen his empire plunge into disaster," said one worker clocking off at Fiat's Mirafiori plant in Turin. The heirs of Fiat (the family controls 34% of the stock) inherit a desperate company. Fiat Auto lost j1.35 billion last year, and the parent company was forced to string together a huge j3 billion loan just to keep operating. At least j3 billion in additional capital will be needed, according to analysts. Fiat recently announced a plan to cut at least 8,000 jobs, provoking bitter workers to block airports, roads and factories. In Agnelli's honor, though, workers have postponed...
...Crimson continues to win at its current pace—its next game at Boston College is on Jan. 28—Saturday will be only the first in a string of television appearances. The ECAC championship at Brown will be televised live on NESN at noon on March 16. The NCAA semifinals and championship at Duluth will be televised live on regional television networks as well...