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...will its grand old icons. Who came to Cannes? Just Clint Eastwood - he practically is America. And Arnold Schwarzenegger - he practically owns it. Best Post-Festival Conspiracy Theory: The gay-Mafia rumor. Though Lars Von Trier's Dogville was deemed front-runner for the Palme d'Or, Gus Van Sant's Elephant took the prize. So the festival did end with the an openly homosexual French director (jury president Patrice Chéreau) presenting the award to an openly homosexual American director (Van Sant). But Chéreau was just one of nine jury members, all with their own wills...
...screen, Burroughs is finishing up his next book (working title: Magical Thinking). With all this normality, is he running out of material? "Catastrophes seem to find me," he says. "I grew up in a little town in nowhere, Massachusetts, and one day these men rolled up in a black van and started casting a Tang commercial..." It should be a while before he runs dry. --By Lev Grossman
...which made us feel a little proud and enormously humble. After all, these people were the ones doing the great work; we'd only written about them. And since heroes, by definition, are in the business of shaking things up, more than a few of ours challenged us. Leonard Van Baelen, a Belgian who pioneered the fair-trade coffee movement in Congo, and South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat urged TIME to keep reporting on Africa and monitor access to antiretroviral medications for AIDS sufferers. We will; when the pages of your magazine start talking to you, you tend...
...basketball coach Larry Eustachy of Iowa State, who forgot the one about not getting drunk and canoodling with coeds. There's Jim Harrick, ex-basketball coach of the University of Georgia, who forgot the one about not permitting athletes to receive bogus class credits. There's Jan van Breda Kolff, ex-basketball coach of St. Bonaventure University, who forgot to require a transfer student to have a two-year degree, not a certificate in welding...
...still have young children. Perhaps it is because breast cancer can be disfiguring, damaging our self-esteem and interfering with our most intimate relationships. Certainly, women are concerned about heart disease, but they can't be faulted for also taking breast cancer very, very seriously. JANE VAN CONEY Cincinnati, Ohio...