The festival this year is particularly heavy on Middle Eastern films, such as "The Patience Stone" from French-Afghan novelist-filmmaker Atiq Rahimi, who won the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary prize, for the book version.

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He uncovers a French plot to infiltrate the museum and snatch the Rosetta Stone (the ancient artefact that provides the key to Egyptian hieroglyphs) in order to return it not to Egypt but to France, which first discovered and translated it.

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The glass-enclosed steam shower is big enough for two and is made of rare stone and tiles imported from around the world golden onyx, French marble with deep chocolate veining and Italian pearlized mosaic tiles.

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The Rosetta Stone for these programmers was initially provided by Canada's parliament, which published proceedings online in French and English, allowing computers to compare identical texts in two different languages.

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Playing in 102 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity at Stone Mountain, Agassi made light of the conditions to dispatch the Spaniard -- a two-time French Open champion -- in straight sets.

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