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President Bush visits the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans for the first time since late summer, saying the government has written a check for $110 billion — and now the challenge is getting that money to the people who need it.

Ben Bernanke, President Bush's nominee to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, goes before the Senate for a confirmation hearing Tuesday. Bernanke, the 51-year-old chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, is expected to be confirmed with little difficulty.

Floyd Landis looks destined to be stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after arbitrators uphold results of a drug test indicating he used synthetic testosterone to fuel a spectacular comeback in renowned race.

The Port of San Diego has been keeping two different books for their expenses. One of them has not shown million-dollar losses for years.

The Squid and the Whale opens with a tennis match that immediately defines the tensions of the Berkman family. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is teamed with sixteen-year-old son Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) against Joan (Laura Linney) and their younger son Frank (Owen Kline). The partnering reveals the family divisions-Walt always sides with his father while Frank aligns with his mother. On the court, Bernard is just a bit too competitive for comfort, and when he hits his wife Joan with the ball, it seems like it might not have been entirely accidental. Soon after the game, Bernard holds a family conference and the boys immediately sense what's about to come. The parents announce a separation and divorce. But not to worry, Mom and Dad insist, they will share joint custody and everything will be just fine.

Zhang Yimou has proven to be a tough survivor of both life and a fluctuating film industry. After the Cultural Revolution in China in 1966, Zhang worked as a farm hand and laborer as part of a nationwide movement to have China's urban youth educated by peasants. But Zhang eventually maneuvered his way into the Beijing Film Academy when it reopened in 1978, even though at twenty-seven he was considered rather old to be entering.

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For Amir, home is Kabul and in the year 2000 it's a bad time to think of returning because the Taliban has taken control of most of his homeland. The Afghan-born Amir now lives in the U.S. where he has just published his first book. The voice from the past belongs to Rahim Kahn, his father's best friend. Actor Shaun Toub (who also starred in

In very French fashion "OSS 117" mixes politics and comedy. Director Michel Hazanavicius -- partnering with screenwriter Jean-Francois Halin and using Jean Bruce's original "OSS 117" novels as inspiration -- uses the spy genre to poke fun at Western and European attitudes about the Arab world. De la Bath symbolizes the general smug superiority of the colonizers toward their colonies and their general lack of insight into the middle east and Arab world. That's something that actually resonates quite potently today.

North Korea will return to six-nation talks on nuclear disarmament, according to Chinese diplomats. The diplomatic breakthrough comes three weeks after North Korea conducted its first known atomic test.