Word: australian
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...gunman; police believe the attack was linked to her report. Says actress Catherine Punch, 27: ``People tend to glamourize criminals and say, `Whoa, they got away with it.' If the police make a mess of things, then the robbers look even better.'' SYDNEY: Public Private Lives Ever since former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke separated from his wife Hazel, 65, in November, rumors have been flying that he was in love with Blanche d'Alpuget, author of the 1982 biography Robert J. Hawke. Now Hawke, 65, and d'Alpuget, 51, are telling all--for a price. The weekly Woman...
...Americans and never appreciated by the Russians, Hanoi not so long ago was written off by outsiders as a crumbling bunker for Vietnam's communist leaders. No more. These days the capital's colonial villas and tree-lined boulevards catch the sentimental eye of nearly every Westerner who visits. Australian, British and French ministers have made Hanoi's renovation a personal cause. U.S. Senator John Kerry spent a good portion of a November 1994 visit outlining plans for a ``reconstruction fund'' with the city's chief architect. ``Hanoi is a real asset, an extraordinary jewel,'' says the Massachusetts Democrat...
...weeks ago, Mary Pierce raised the victor's trophy in the air at the 1995 Australian Open Championships. For Pierce, the struggles that have led up to that moment of glory can never be erased or forgotten...
...feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses, he says, my hostile wife and son have stolen every can and taken them to the dump. But no; later the wife and son force the loony...
Nobody ever doubted her drive or her talent, but for years MARY PIERCE has had trouble keeping her composure on the tennis court. You wouldn't know it from her performance in last week's Australian Open, though: despite two double faults in the very first game, the fourth-seeded Pierce, 20, went on to a 6-3, 6-2 win in the final, beating Spain's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 23, the woman who denied Pierce a victory in the French Open last year. "I just haven't realized what has happened yet. I'm still reeling from it," said...