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...Strip's Four Seasons Hotel with a stack of 14 signed checks. Each of his clients was determined to buy a spot in the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino, a property that will not exist until late 2007 or 2008 and for which a shovel will not touch the earth until fall. "It's a zoo," says Hiatt. "Buildable land here is running out. We have only one place to go, and that's up." By March 1, the tiniest of the hypothetical condos had risen in price...
...towards it really." By turns warm and worn, McKenzie is a revelation as Jude, no more so than in the scene where she sings The Carnival is Over across a pub counter. If Peaches sees McKenzie's spiky talents settle and mature, Paul Cox's recent Human Touch, shot after Monahan's movie, sees it glow. As a young chorister estranged from her painter husband (Aaron Blabey), McKenzie makes Anna's sensual awakening both mysterious and real. But it's in her shift from arthouse to TV primetime that's most likely to cast McKenzie's talents...
...would seem the serious young actress has lightened up. For McKenzie, the turning point came while filming Human Touch in the South of France. Encouraged by director Cox to decorate the villa they were shooing in with his own art works, actor Blabey, himself a painter, coaxed McKenzie to the easel, too. Without any drawing skills, the actress began sponging the canvas with paint, from which figures began emerging - "like you see faces in cloud formations," she recalls. Eighteen months and 63 canvases later, McKenzie has painted up her own little universe, from street urchins to femme fatales...
...public opinion even as it increasingly calls the shots. In March, the Chinese leadership nudged Hong Kong's aloof and deeply unpopular Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, into resigning. That paved the way for Tung's No. 2, Donald Tsang, a gregarious, astute career civil servant with the common touch. Beijing has publicly backed him as the best man to run Hong Kong?even though some of the city's pro-China leaders openly question his "patriotic" credentials. Last week Tsang, 60, stepped down temporarily as the acting Chief Executive so he could run on July...
...radio kept the patrol leader in touch with the coalition base at Bagram, and in theory gave him access to the might of the U.S. Air Force. Convinced he was under attack from al-Qaeda fighters, he called for air support. It was refused: the risk of anti-aircraft missiles meant the Americans were unwilling to fly at the low altitude necessary. Headquarters also ruled out flying in more troops because the landing zone was deemed too dangerous...