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...China's big Cannes hope, Lou Ye's Purple Butterfly, is an epic set during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. It's got lots of action (including a splendidly complex shoot-out in a train station), a starry performance by Zhang Ziyi and enough period atmosphere to clog your lungs. But Lou seemed to be in a debate with himself about what kind of film he wanted to make. He ultimately chose avant-garde abstraction over the melodramatic vigor this large subject demanded...
...that there was no process the city was considered in,” he said. “Harvard just said ‘we’re going to buy it.’ What about the future of that decision, and how does that economically impact that train yard? A lot of our product comes in through that yard...
...probation sophomore year for having a woman in his Adams House room after parietal hours—a fact which he recalls with some pride. A few months later he flunked out and went to train for the Korean War during his two years...
...that very moment, similar assaults were under way in two other residential areas. Four miles away, at a complex that housed dozens of Americans employed by Vinnell Corp. to help train the Saudi National Guard, a pair of cars were on a deadly mission. The first, a Ford Crown Victoria sedan filled with terrorists armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, sped up to the compound's security checkpoint. The men mowed down the guards and removed a 3-ft.-high steel barrier...
...faltering economy has, meanwhile, taken a toll on Putin's approval rating, which has declined from 75% to 48% over the past three months. An increasingly violent Chechnya won't help his political fortunes. "Putin has manacled himself to a hell-bound train and can't get off," says Salambek Maigov, the official representative of rebel Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. "He has made himself a hostage to the situation." --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow