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...Both forms of bloodshed are preoccupying themes for the English director Michael Winterbottom. His 2006 movie The Road to Guantanamo is in part a straightforward documentary of three British nationals who were held and abused for two years in the U.S. detention center (before being released with no charges or apologies), and partly a re-enactment of the trio's plight. In his new docudrama A Mighty Heart, he has enlisted the star power of Angelina Jolie (and her partner Brad Pitt as producer) to re-create the ordeal of Mariane Pearl, wife of Daniel Pearl-the Wall Street Journal...
...LIVING SPACE: British-French expat Jennifer Dyson was a longtime fixture on Tha Pae Road until this past February, when she moved her design-and-lifestyle emporium, tel: (66) 5321 5166, to Nimmanhaemin. "I suppose I was ready for a new environment," she says. Fans of her old store can still find plenty of its distinctive, boldly colored Thai and Vietnamese lacquerware. Other goodies include two-toned lambskin messenger bags and teak trays inlaid with mother-of-pearl...
...some obvious reasons for Russian intransigence. The case is a skein of disputed plots and subplots. Lugovoi and one companion - or two, according to some versions - met Litvinenko at a London hotel on Nov. 1. Litvinenko died 22 days later from the invisible toxin apparently swallowed at that meeting. British investigators have tried to unpick the events, linking Lugovoi to a trail of particles shed by the polonium. Lugovoi denies blame, while Russia says its constitution prevents it from handing over a citizen to a foreign power...
...Brown's prize was certain; his campaign would turn into a cross-country victory tour. Yet he arrived at the London launch venue not in pomp and splendor but by crowded Tube train. "There was a classic British silence on board. Nobody stared," says Tom Stoddart, a photographer who traveled with Brown for Time, exclusively chronicling 10 days in his life as Prime Minister-in-waiting. Brown, too, acted as if this were a trip like any other, averting his gaze from a newspaper across the aisle emblazoned with his own unsmiling face...
...QUESTION OF LINEAGE: Which long-since-downed ship was it? The British Merchant Royal? The H.M.S. Sussex, whose wreckage is claimed by Spain? Odyssey Marine Exploration has yet to identify the vessel...