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...prime. The kids want thrills, and I Want to Believe offers some good ones, though of an old-fashioned variety. The chases aren't Batmobile-vs.-Joker-truck, they either involve a snowplow or are on foot. And the shock scenes are closer to the murky threat of Val Lewton's '40s horror movies than to the slice-and-dice explicitness of the Saw and Hostel slasher series. Early on, a young woman takes a dip in a public pool, then gets out. Submerged in the pool is a man with a predatory smile. As the camera moves...
...know that women's rights are never secured, but we never thought we'd see such regression in our country," reacted Martine Aubry, the Socialist mayor of Lille, where the case was heard. France's conservative secretary of state for social solidarity, Valérie Létard, called the decision "an attack on the integrity of women and a violation of the fundamental rights of all individuals...
That point is central to a new study by Valérie Simard of Hôpital de Sacré-Coeur in Montréal, which examines the link between parents' bedtime behavior and sleep disturbances in children during infancy and early childhood. Simard administered yearly questionnaires to 987 parents, whose children were 5 months old at the start of the study. She found that certain "maladaptive" parental habits - such as the mother staying with the child until he or she fell asleep, or the parent giving a child food or drink upon nighttime awakening - appeared to develop in response...
...with a stranger, of course. “Do you like Chet Baker?” the Egyptian man in a police uniform asks the lady behind the counter at the bus station. “What?” she responds, confused. “My funn-ay Val-ahn-than,” he sings as his colleagues look on incredulously. This awkward moment—the kind in which only one party realizes that the interaction is bizarre and the other believes they are behaving in a completely normal fashion—is characteristic...
...best-loved class in any society. Still, the back-to-school prospect of seeing members France's most supercilious set of officials subjected to grading - and scolding when those notes slide - has elicited mirth, skepticism and indignation from Sarkozy's political opponents and pundits. Will Higher Education Minster Valérie Pécresse, for example, have to stand in a symbolic corner if evaluators find too few campuses have embraced her hard-fought university reform? Will French voters actually applaud Immigration and National Identity Minister Brice Hortefeux if he scores high on one of his criteria: expelling enough illegal...