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BORN. To MARIANE PEARL, 34, French-born widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl; a boy, ADAM D. PEARL; in Paris. Pearl's family, in a written statement, said, "The name Adam symbolizes the birth of humankind and the connectedness of civilizations... We are hopeful Adam's generation will see the emergence of an era in which tolerance and understanding reign...
...affair. Whole streets are dedicated to the selling of shrouds and the influx of tourists has spawned a new school of opportunists. Papu, a self-appointed guide to the Hindu rituals of death, walks visitors through the ceremony, then earnestly describes the karmic benefits of giving $10 to a widow with no means. What a donor gains from Papu taking a cut is not explained...
...declining sales. Four years later, it was revived by tycoon Mohamed al Fayed, owner of London's famed Harrods department store. But Fayed said he could no longer afford to keep the publication afloat, though its archives and cartoons will be maintained online. BORN. To MARIANNE PEARL,the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a baby boy; in Paris. Pearl was killed more than four months ago by Islamic militants while reporting in Pakistan. ARRESTED. LEE HONG SEOK, 54, Korea's assistant minister of culture and tourism, on bribery charges; in Seoul. Lee is accused of having...
...elliptical. The World Trade Center towers were excised from one scene; New Yorkers refusing to be terrorized by the Green Goblin sound a note of Let's-Roll-ism. (The American flag filling the screen in the final moments, on the other hand, is as subtle as a black-widow bite.) It might be off-putting, seeing a superhero saving New York, reminding us that there was no one to catch those airliners in his supertensile webbing last year. But Spider-Man's flawed hero fits naturally into a flawed world, where sometimes the best intentions and superdefenses fall tragically...
...Thousand Country Roads begins 16 years after the close encounter in Bridges. The two principals are spending their twilight years many miles apart: Robert Kincaid on an island in Puget Sound; Francesca Johnson, now a widow, dreaming away the long evenings on her Iowa farm. Bored with retirement and pushing 70, Kincaid sets off in his beloved pickup to see the fateful Roseman Bridge one last time. There's tension in the air, but not because we expect the two lovers to meet again--Waller made it clear in Bridges that they never do. The tension comes from...