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...Dahan, he is always cutting from Piaf (played by Marion Cotillard) at the height of her relatively brief life (she was discovered in 1935 and died, at age 47, in 1963) to this or that aspect of her dismal past - her desertion by her mad mother, the years she spent in her grandmother's brothel (no, she was never a working girl, though that seems to be the only indignity she was spared), her time as a street singer, her rise to drug and drink addled international fame, her inevitable decline and early death from cancer. Considerable attention is paid...
Thompson has devoted a lot of time to studying why previous GOP hopefuls imploded. He spent part of last week in his Washington-area office, meeting with veteran campaigners while his aides figured out how to find office space, hire advance men and ride herd on financiers. By jumping into the race in early July (and signaling his intentions widely now), Thompson hopes to slow the fund raising of his embattled friend John McCain...
...request, but after the city auditor’s office said it would release records of his expenditures, he said he never kept the receipts in the first place. When the auditor ultimately released his credit card records to the Chronicle in April, the paper reported Reeves had spent over $8,400 in decorating expenses for his office alone...
...Media Tiff" incorrectly stated that the Cambridge Chronicle did not print a correction after it learned that it had overstated the amount of travel expenses incurred by Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72. In fact, the newspaper published a clarification on Jan. 11 stating that Reeves had only spent $11,188 on travel—not the more than $40,000 figure the paper initially reported...
...Germany summit cost $134 million, much of it spent on security. Measured by the organizers' outlay or by the media coverage the event receives, it appears as if the protests themselves have become the point...