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...more like a mythological gathering. It's a sign that people today have a need for a King. John Paul was a classic figure of royalty, of a paternal transcendence." Perhaps Eco's own continuing appeal may signal another popular longing: for friendly mentors, to enrich and unravel the world for its bewildered inhabitants...
...hallmark of any commercial film is that it resolves the plot. More and more, as this year's Cannes selections demonstrate, art films shrink from happy endings; sad ones, endings of any certainty. Michael Haneke's Hidden, the critics' current favorite to win the Palme d'Or, refused to unravel its central enigma. So does Broken Flowers, though Don need only ask a question or two of a few people he meets to find what he was ostensibly searching for. The mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying...
...good news is that even as the population of cutters grows, so does the legion of professionals working on new ways to unravel and treat the problem. The first step is to understand why kids do this to themselves...
...TIME president Eileen Naughton, along with sciences editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, organized a conference in Williamsburg, Va., to address the issue. Co-sponsored by ABC News and supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the summit called together 400 leaders in the medical, corporate and public-policy fields to unravel how Americans got themselves into such a fix and how to get out of it. Last week the American Diabetes Association named Naughton, along with childhood nutritionist Christina Economos and professor of nutrition Miriam Nelson, its Women of Valor for 2005. Said Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of The Robert Wood...
...January-February run in which viewership swelled with each Tuesday, 8 p.m. airing. Why do people watch? Maybe to cringe, learn or revel with the occasional winner, whose businesses have included tailor-made clothes for women, beanbag-like hammocks, and mushrooms. Just as in real VC handshakes, deals can unravel during postshow due diligence. There's a Clay Aiken effect too. Like the Idol loser who flourished, Dragon rejects have found cash elsewhere. Dragons' Den looks ripe for the U.S., venture capital's home. Sony is talking with a U.S. network, rumored to be Discovery. --By Mark Halper