Word: tortuously
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...wife, Gertrude (Diane Venora), which understandably angers her son, Hamlet (Ethan Hawke). Torn between concerns for his mother and spurred by a visit from his father's ghost, our protagonist seeks to uncover the truth of his father's death by feigning madness. Couple Hamlet's anxiety to a tortuous romance with Ophelia (Julia Stiles) and meddling from her father (Bill Murray), and the plot unfolds from there. Or rather implodes, because Hamlet's acted lunacy causes the downfall of his carefully crafted yuppie world...
...graveyard stakeout. And several investigators still consider them the likeliest suspects in the unsolved killing, as Detective Thomas makes clear in his new book, JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation, St. Martin's Press, written with Don Davis, a former wire-service reporter. Thomas and Davis recount the tortuous wanderings of police in their search for the child's killer--an exercise that in this book appears to be less an open-ended investigation than an effort to confirm early suspicions that the Ramseys were involved...
...fights over shareholders' rights have even led to bloody clashes between riot troops and local workers. "If you want to empty a boardroom on Wall Street," quips an American investment banker in Moscow, "just say the word Russia." For too many foreigners, investing in Russia has proved to be tortuous and hugely expensive. Just ask the folks at BP Amoco. Last fall the company nearly saw its $484 million investment in Russian oil giant Sidanko all but disappear in a maze of Russian corporate shenanigans. In a complex scheme with a brutishly simple result, Sidanko's most prodigious subsidiary...
...stronger hand to push his reform agenda," says Dowell, "the real struggle for a new Iran may be going on behind the walls of the seminaries where more and more clerics are challenging the conservatives' view of the extent of the clergy's political authority." That's a tortuous process to which ordinary Iranians can't directly contribute. But Friday's poll gives them an opportunity to send the mullahs a message...
Peace talks are to resume on January 19 after a tortuous week of negotiations in Shepherdstown, W. Va., wrapped up Monday without getting much beyond establishing an agenda. "Most of the first week was spent arguing over what would be negotiated first," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller. "The Syrians wanted to begin with discussing new borders; the Israelis refused to talk borders until negotiations were well under way on security arrangements. They didn't get down to substantive talks until the last day, so they still have a lot to do." And judging by the fact that President...