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...ten days, Cannes is the center of the serious movie world. And part of the fun of the festival is predicting which films, from among the 19 in competition, will be chosen as best by the Jury. This involves much second-hand psychoanalyzing of the ten Jury members: Who will impose his or her will? Tarantino? The strong-minded British actress Tilda Swinton? The American doyenne Kathlene Turner? Or Hong Kong maestro Tsui Hark...
...there you have the official winners. But there is a parallel Cannes competition: it is screened in each viewer?s mind. A critic sees 30 to 50 films in ten days, and as the festival wears on the good ones nudge the bad ones aside to linger a while in the memory. Here, then, are the awards for Cannes 2004 from one critic who, since 1973, has spent 31 lovely fortnights in this dream palace on the Cote d?Azur...
...more than a year, the Fighting Illini (30-0, 13-0 Big Ten) have been the best. The squad has been atop the nation since February 2003, and in its last seven victories, the team has dropped only one dual match point, that in a 4-1 defeat of No. 17 Ohio State...
...Crimson will travel to the University of Tulsa to take on top-ranked Illinois (28-0, 13-0 Big Ten), the defending national champions, in the Round...
...nation's most forceful disease-advocacy groups. They hired a clutch of sophisticated lawyers and political consultants to draft the measure and conduct polls. They enlisted allies from Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, Parkinson's and other disease-advocacy groups and spent $2.5 million gathering signatures for the initiative. Ten Nobel prizewinners have endorsed the measure, including David Baltimore, president of the California Institute of Technology, and Berg, who created the first recombinant DNA molecule. Behind the scenes, Silicon Valley venture capitalists are backing what is expected to be a $20 million campaign...