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...French word veuve (widow) also means guillotine. In 1850 a killer (Emir Kusturica) is condemned to death by guillotine, on an island where there is no such device; the local captain (Daniel Auteuil) must send away for one. Meanwhile, the killer ingratiates himself with the townsfolk, especially the captain's wife (Juliette Binoche). Issues of life and death, love and friendship play out delicately and powerfully. Binoche is especially subtle and radiant in another splendid drama from Leconte...
Spencer had the lowest scores in town, so Brumby said yes. And by the end of that school year, townsfolk were slackjawed. The 400 Spencer students, many from homes in which neither parent could read, had devoured 25,000 books. And Brumby began thinking, WELCOME TO TIFTON, READING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD...
...Tulia, Texas - a dry little town of less than 5,000 people in the windswept panhandle - were arrested for dealing cocaine. It was the most ambitious drug sting in the history of Swisher County, and there was great buzz surrounding the bust and self-congratulation among the majority of townsfolk at the time. Now the buzz has turned. The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have become quite concerned that 40 of those 43 arrested were African-American. That represents about 12 percent of Tulia's tiny black minority. Critics are also...
...what we hear, they'll leave," says New Haven's Dan Ilkich, 34. "And then they say, Look, you're really just a bunch of hicks who don't know what's best for you." This is not a stretch. Perrier flack Jane Lazgin was dumbfounded as to how townsfolk could be stacked against such a winning project...
...Aside from their ice cream expeditions, the FARC guerrillas maintain a discreet profile in San Vicente. Everyone is so scared of them, anyway, that they don't need to bully the townsfolk. Locals whisper that when the guerrillas ask for anything - a cow, free gasoline, a ranch - it's not advisable to refuse. "Up until yesterday, these commanders had spent their lives in the jungle, walking around in mud," says one shopkeeper. "Now they have the best houses, the prettiest girls...