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...Indeed, Thaksin does possess that rarest commingling of attributes: stellar academic prowess combined with an easy-going cool. For a math whiz, he doesn't come across as being only about differential calculus and regression analysis?he successfully communicates greater depth and a sort of popular-kid charisma. His aunt remembers him as always being a leader, even in the days when he and the other boys were making banana-tree stalks into toy horses and riding around, pretending to be cowboys...
...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...
...effort to keep topping itself, Hollywood is taking time-tested crowd pleasers--namely, talking animals--further and further into the digital realm. Dr. Dolittle 2, in which Eddie Murphy talks to computerized critters, will still be in theaters when Cats & Dogs, a whiz-bang homage to Chuck Jones and James Bond, enters the fray. "We have to deliver images that audiences have never seen before," says Cats & Dogs' director Lawrence Guterman. "It has to be funny--otherwise there's no movie--but at the same time you have to deliver something new." That effort has gone on for two years...
...effort to keep topping itself, Hollywood is taking time-tested crowd pleasers-namely, talking animals-further and further into the digital realm. Dr. Dolittle 2, in which Eddie Murphy talks to computerized critters, will still be in theaters when Cats & Dogs, a whiz-bang homage to Chuck Jones and James Bond, enters the fray. "We have to deliver images that audiences have never seen before," says Cats & Dogs' director Lawrence Guterman. "It has to be funny-otherwise there's no movie-but at the same time you have to deliver something new." That effort has gone on for two years...
...other druglords shared the Tijuana corridor, but after they savagely murdered DEA agent Enrique Camarena in 1985, in league with senior police and political figures, Mexican authorities put them in jail. Into Tijuana roared the seven Arellano brothers, including the handsome Benjamin, their CEO; chubby Ramon, the enforcer; finance-whiz Eduardo, 44, the money launderer; and the eldest, Francisco, 51, the gregarious, cross-dressing pitchman who, say officials, cemented the clan's top-drawer political and police alliances, usually out of his Mazatlan discotheque, Frankie...