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...this, too: some of them share the doubts about the remains? authenticity. The missing two bodies have also inspired rumors that one or more of the Romanov children escaped execution, most famously depicted in the 1956 Ingrid Bergman film Anastasia and in real life by a Polish woman named Anna Anderson who falsely claimed to be Princess Anastasia...
...Anna Kim, SYDNEY...
...most athletic kids. A solid 54% wanted to be smartest (37% wanted to be most athletic, and 9% wanted to be best looking). But only 0.3% said the reason to be smartest was to gain popularity. We like athletic prodigies like Tiger Woods or young Academy Award winners like Anna Paquin. But the mercurial, aloof, annoying nerd has been a trope of our culture, from Bartleby the Scrivener to the dorky PC guy in the Apple ads. Intellectual precocity fascinates but repels...
...find ourselves in France. Anna, estranged from her family, has come here to research the life of a dead writer named Lucien Segura. She moves into the writer's house, takes long country walks, and falls for a man with a guitar. Then we slip again - this time into Segura's life. We hear about what made him a writer; how he dealt with the sexual tussles between his two daughters; about his experiences in World War I. And now the hawk has ended its flight...
...Manganos could also benefit from growing public antipathy to Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, whose office is prosecuting the case. Foti's public approval rating has plummeted since the arrest one year ago of two Memorial Medical Center nurses and surgeon Anna Pou, whom Foti accused of murdering patients in the days following Katrina. The public rallied around the health care workers, and New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan dropped the second-degree murder and murder conspiracy charges last month after a grand jury decided not to indict...