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...Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship. The wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5? each. Hon's first stop of the day is Xa Nhon...
AUDREY C. VAN VOORHIS - Port Orchard, Wash...
...drama to reveal itself as a monster movie with gore galore. Only an actor with García Bernal's appealing seriousness could keep the trick of his character hidden so far up his sleeve. In recent festivals, Cannes has rewarded films critical of American crimes and adventures. Gus Van Sant's Elephant, a reimagining of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, and Michael Moore's anti-Bush Fahrenheit 9/11 were the past two years' Palme d'Or winners...
...pieces in the show. One is an early work, Still Life with Pitcher; the other, Street in the Midi, was not acquired by Olivier Senn but by his son Edouard. Hélène Senn-Foulds recalls that when her grandfather was offered a Vincent Van Gogh, he bought it on condition that the gallery retain the painting and let him know as soon as its value had doubled. Senn kept only the pieces he loved. The collector got to know many of the artists whose work he acquired. On one occasion, Monet wrote to Senn asking...
...That tack won out, says Abou El Fadl, and for centuries the hard line was a shrinking minority. But it survived long enough to inform the Saudi Wahhabism that has more recently infected Afghanistan and Pakistan, precisely the locales where the recent demonstrations began and turned violent. --By David Van Biema...