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| Obama & Iran |
 THE last round of nuclear negotiations
with Iran ended in
stalemate, and prospects
appear dim for a breakthrough
at next week's meeting in
Moscow.
Two central factors are driving
Washington's negotiation strategy at
this point. The first is ... |
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| NO ANTI-AMERICA
SENTIMENT IN IRAN |
 MY 1,700-mile road trip
across Iran began with a
giddy paean to America,
reinforcing my view that
at the grass-roots level,
this may be the most pro-
American nation in the Middle
East.
"We love America!" gushed a former
military commando, now a
clothing seller, my first evening in
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designer dream in Ryan Lochte AFTER finishing three hours of
laps, sprints and weighted
strokes at the University of
Florida´s Olympic-size pool,
Ryan Lochte, the record-setting,
gold medal-winning swimmer, was
showing the briefest glimmer of fatigue.
"I just want to be done," ...
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in Havana getting louder |  IN the echoing cobbled walkway of
an 18th-century fort that is home
to part of the 11th Havana
Biennial, an insistent clang
emanates from an artwork in
which a bronze bird continually hits a
boat propeller with its beak. Behind that
noise floats the melody of a Cuban son
played by a trio. And then, above it all,
comes another kind of sound: US voices,
crying out in English, "Look at that!" and
"I want you to see this!"
For much of the last decade, President
George Bush all but shut down travel
between the United States and Cuba, and
with it the stream of US art lovers who had
helped nourish the Cuban art scene. But
since President Barack Obama began lifting
many of the Bush-era restrictions on travel
in 2009, the traffic ... | | | How Andrew Garfield
fell for Emma Stone |  FROM the minute Andrew
Garfield met Emma Stone
during The Amazing
Spider-Man auditions, he
knew they had something
special.
During a recent sit-down with MTV
News, Garfield, 28, reveals he felt a
connection with his costar — who
plays Peter Parker´s first love, Gwen
Stacy — almost immediately.
"We got on really well as people, in
between takes," the actor said. "That
was the fun stuff: In between, we´d just
mess around and I felt, ´Ah, this is different.´
I wasn´t really aware of
what was happening in the
screen test. She keeps you on
your toes and that wakes you up. That
was the beginning."
Garfield confessed he was thrilled
when he learned Stone, 23, had
accepted the part.
"Obviously I was so happy that she
got ... | | | Still not many women-oriented
films, feels Neha Dhupia |  ACTRESS Neha Dhupia is
glad that the portrayal of
women on the big screen
is changing from the
homely, simple and innocent
character to a bolder and
stronger one. She is however not sure
how long this transition will last.
"It is a great thing that filmmakers
have started looking at women characters
from a different perspective.
But we need to see how long it will
last," Neha said.
"It´s not like Madhur (Bhandarkar)
wasn´t doing it before. There were
directors who have worked with
actresses like Rekha and Sridevi. Now
just because you have a film like The
Dirty Picture, doesn´t mean the
change is happening everywhere.
"I can´t name more than one film
like that. There are not many such
women... | |
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