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...Bound up with lies and truth is a sensitivity to ambiguity in a world of black-and-white dualities: boy and girl, straight and gay. Nip/Tuck is literally about the idea that the flesh can tell lies, that identity is malleable, that a person is more than what is written on his or her anatomy. It also has an uncanny sensitivity for the stormy, complex relationship--like a platonic marriage--between the straight-male leads Christian (Julian McMahon) and Sean (Dylan Walsh). When Sean discovers, for instance, that Christian had an affair with Sean's wife and is the real...
...Hamburg-bound? What was once a graffiti-covered iron foundry just off the Reeperbahn, the city's notorious red-light district, has been triumphantly transformed into the fashionable East Hotel, tel: (49-40) 30 99 30. Opened three months ago, this 78-room treat is the daring creation of Chicago-based architect Jordan Mozer, who says he was looking to achieve "a contrast between old and new" and "a surreal mixture of East and West." Spaces are draped in luminous floor-to-ceiling velvet curtains, decorated with handmade furnishings and wrought-iron fixtures, and illuminated by candlelight. The Asian accents...
...Unless we guarantee safe business and protection of property rights we have no trust, and no trust means no investment." For now, the privatizing action is a matter for the courts, which two weeks ago cleared the way for a resale of the popular Dynamo football club. There are bound to be protracted legal challenges to come. Pinchuk and Akhmetov are said to be trying to work out a behind-the-scenes deal for the steel mill, but they have also filed their appeal. Pinchuk's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told the daily Kyiv Post last month...
...gunfight in the northeastern Ituri region. U.N. officials said the peacekeepers were fired on first and acted in self-defense. The militia was thought to be responsible for slaying nine Bangladeshi peacekeepers a week earlier. More Brinkmanship NORTH KOREA The government announced that it no longer felt bound by a self-imposed 1999 moratorium on long-range missile testing, and blamed the "hostile policy" of the U.S. toward Pyongyang for compelling it to boost its "self-defensive nuclear arsenal." The move came amid ongoing efforts to persuade North Korea to rejoin six-nation talks aimed at ending its nuclear standoff...
...record in league play and the team’s third straight conference championship brings little resolution to playoff-bound Harvard, with a busy month of March still ahead...