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...graduate student in international affairs who voted twice for Khatami but is supporting Rafsanjani. "We need realism." That may not satisfy idealists in Tehran or Washington. But with Rafsanjani as President, that may be the most they can expect. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris and J.F.O. McAllister/London
...unload Orange Bowl tickets. And the story is similar in other highly developed metro areas. The biggest-paying bets in Las Vegas are being laid on the condos and hotel condos (essentially, hotel suites that you can buy) going up on the Strip. On Valentine's Day morning, Bruce Hiatt, a broker and co-owner of Luxury Realty Group, showed up at the Strip's Four Seasons Hotel with a stack of 14 signed checks. Each of his clients was determined to buy a spot in the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino, a property that will not exist until late...
What is Batman afraid of? What might give the moody masked millionaire the primal shakes? The answer-and it's an easy one if you stop to think about it-is bats. Those furry, whirry creatures traumatized little Bruce Wayne when he was a kid. He has other, more guilt-edged issues, involving his saintly parents, as well. When we first meet Bruce (Christian Bale) as a grownup, he has traveled far (to Asia) and fallen low (a Chinese prison) in an attempt to restore wellness to his troubled soul. Specifically, he joins up with a bunch of muscular moralists...
Robin is not yet on the scene-guess he'll arrive in the next prequel-but Bruce is even more than usually asexual in this movie. So much cleansing to do, so little time to do it. Girls (or, for that matter, boys) are a distraction he can't afford. Whenever Katie Holmes, unwisely loving him, appears, he starts doing his Penguin imitation, perhaps understandably. There's the Bat Cave to tidy up, the Bat gear to invent (wry Morgan Freeman is helpful in that regard) and a bustling array of master and minor criminals to bring to justice...
...fairness, it must be said that the script (by director Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer) breaks with sobriety to give someone, usually Michael Caine as Alfred, Bruce's faithful, fussy butler, something smart to say. Eventually, however, Nolan, who directed the tricky, widely admired Memento, must oblige the conventions of the big-budget action movie: darkly improbable weaponry, pyrotechnics, car chases (the Batmobile is admittedly pretty novel), editing that edges toward incomprehensibility...