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Michael Jackson's trial began last week with testimony from the accuser's sister and others, who launched the prosecution's case that Jackson molested a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch. And courtroom watchers got their first good look at the legal teams that are set to clash...
...very much the same stiff upper lip, restrained manners, social conformity feel of Japan. That's partly what infuses my writing." But behind the facade of the ordinary is the extraordinary trauma of his hometown. The atomic bomb was hardly spoken of in Nagasaki when Ishiguro was a boy, but now his conversation is peppered with references to it. He describes the cloning debate as "the same as nuclear physicists must have felt before developing the bomb. We're aware of tremendous potential benefits, and tremendous dangers." He thinks Nagasaki's comeback is a testament to human endurance and creativity...
...SHADOW OF THE WIND By Carlos Ruiz Zafón Barcelona, 1945. A young boy becomes fascinated by a strange novel by a man named Julián Carax. But who was Carax? No one can agree. And why have all other copies of his books been destroyed? And who is that guy following the boy around, speaking in riddles and smelling of burned paper? The Shadow of the Wind is a sophisticated, Borgesian thriller about--and for--those select few for whom books and people, reading and living, are one and the same...
...been so long since CHARLIE SHEEN was in the news for roughing up a girlfriend, hiring a hooker or getting high that it seemed the former Hollywood bad boy had honestly reformed. He may have, but last week his wife, model turned Bond girl DENISE RICHARDS, six months pregnant with their second child, filed for divorce. Richards cited irreconcilable differences and wants custody of the children and spousal support. "We are deeply saddened," the couple said. The sheen, apparently, is off the Sheen...
...that result. Over dinner a few years ago, Rob's wife stunned him by announcing she wanted to end their 11-year marriage. He now has a new partner and his ex-wife has remarried, and they're still wrangling over how often he sees the kids - a teenage boy and a little girl. Rob says his ex-wife has tried to demonize him in the children's eyes, with some success. Last year, without warning him, she and the children moved to a town several hours' drive from Sydney, throwing his every-second-weekend contact into jeopardy. Could...