[1]Paris: Filmmaker Roman Polanski, breaking a months-long silence, said on Sunday that the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him “on a platter to the media.”
Polanski, who is under housearrest in his Alpine Swiss chalet, laid out his case against extradition on an online magazine run by one of his staunchest supporters, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.
“I have had my share of dramas and joys, as we all have, and I am not going to try to ask you to pity my lot in life,” he wrote. “I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else.” Polanski suggests the case against him is unjust and riddled with problems. Each argument begins with the phrase: “I can remain silent no longer.”
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8.44 pm is ‘perfect time’ for couples
London: For worked up couples, the “perfect moment” when they can finally sit down and relax at the end of the day comes at precisely 8.44pm, research has found.
The study of 3,000 people found the average couple settles down together at 8.05pm, but it takes a further 39 minutes to unwind and forget about the stresses and strains of the working day. The pressures of long working hours and domestic tasks also mean married couples are spending less than 75 minutes of quality time together. Psychologists and counsellors have said that the gruelling work and domestic schedules of modern life are fuelling high divorce rates. The study also shows that there are distinct differences between the ways men and women wind down after work. ANI
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