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...York's, which starts in late September, put only a few dozen films on display, TIFF has hundreds. Even if a Toronto cinemaniac were to get no more than a few hours' sleep a night and renounce all food except popcorn, he or she would be able to see eight or 10 pictures a day - less than a third of the festival offerings...
...master at playing a weak hand brilliantly. North Korea threw out international inspectors and restarted its weapons program, once again reprocessing plutonium from spent fuel rods. Pyongyang even upped the ante by hinting that it had a uranium-enrichment program paralleling its plutonium one. And it chose to end eight years of a self-imposed moratorium on missile testing on July 4, 2006 - American Independence...
...core group of operators to act as consistent suppliers. In December 2007, he formed a partnership with an affiliate of a Hong Kong - listed gaming company named Amax Entertainment Holdings; Amax raised $250 million through a stock sale, which was then used to provide financing to eight junket operators. In effect, Amax became like a central bank for the high-roller market. Using this financial leverage, the Amax affiliate funneled gamblers to the Crown and in return got an above-market commission, some of which is passed on to the operators...
...Over eight days, first Tom, then Tom and Nelly together, look for the (unnamed) dog. But these eight days compress nearly a century of recollected histories of several lives in India. They include Tom's memories of growing up in India and the family's immigration to Australia, and the stories of Tom's father, the Englishman Arthur Loxley, and Arthur's Eurasian wife, Iris de Souza. Iris, now an arthritic and incontinent 82-year-old, living on the untender mercies of her sister-in-law, Audrey, is becoming an intractable problem for her son. Meanwhile, Tom's deepening attraction...
...Vote Re the quote in "Back & Forth" about letting thousands of voting machines stay broken for November's election because of a scheduling backlog [Sept. 1]: We can find water on Mars and land a man on the moon, but we can't produce a working voting machine in eight years? Heads should roll. Norma Wilkinson, Long Beach, California...