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...beautiful people can give even the most jaded visitor a kind of whiplash of the eyes), some for the parties (free food! free wine! possible sightings of Clint and Brangelina!). But the 2,000 critics are here on a monastic mission. Renouncing the beaches and the usually gorgeous weather of this Riviera resort, we sit in large and small screening rooms in Cannes' Grand Palais from eight in the morning to well past midnight, taking pause only to rush to the press room or back to our hotels to file reports on the films we've seen...
...think bun expands in your stomach,” she said of her decision to finish it early. She consumed her chickwich in style, with the bun upside down.The competitors then trekked to Winthrop through the cold drizzling rain. Neither seemed bothered by the lackluster weather. Tan proudly sported her Chickwich Challenge orange number “1” on her back in lieu of any rain gear.Inside, both girls confessed that they didn’t have a game plan prepared. “I was going to fast the day before,” Tan said...
...climate, on a course you’ve never seen before, on different grass than you’ve played,” said senior captain Jessica Hazlett, who shot 242 (83-81-78). “It takes a lot of time to adjust.”The weather was consistently around 100 degrees in Austin and very humid. On the final day, thunderstorms interrupted play, and four of the five Crimson players were forced to wait 80 minutes to finish their round. By the time they were able to finish their season...
...hereditary chieftain of Lebanon's Druze Muslim minority, Jumblatt earned the nickname 'the weather vane" for being able to steer his followers through the ever changing winds of Middle East politics. A former princely vassal to the Syrian Assad regime, he switched his loyalties to the Bush administration after the invasion of Iraq, when it briefly seemed like American military power would transform the region. Yet, despite the fact that Hizballah is perhaps the world's most fearsome guerrilla organization, somehow Jumblatt misjudged the ease with which Hizballah could pull Lebanon back into the Syrian and Iranian orbit. "I must...
...million. Diseases that fester in the wake of such natural disasters could prove as deadly as the storm. Most galling, a 450,000-strong military that had ruthlessly gunned down dozens of monk-led demonstrators last September was seen as doing little to address the country's worst weather calamity in living memory. Faced with such monumental devastation, the junta has said it would welcome foreign help. On May 6, President George W. Bush pledged $3.25 million in emergency aid to a country normally cut off from American largesse by sanctions motivated by the Burmese regime's human-rights record...