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...really be considered spas? "They are more like leisure entertainment complexes for the masses," says Maggie Gunning, managing director at Spa Synergy, a Singapore-based spa consultancy. They're fast becoming hotel alternatives, too. An extra $17 at LaQua, for instance, lets you stay overnight in a fully reclining chair. Factor in the $23 entrance fee, as well as the costs of a massage and a meal, and you still have a bargain when it comes to lodging in Tokyo. Just don't expect a mint on your pillow...
...film is strongest in exposing the capriciousness of the standards for judging movies. "There was no rater-training process," Jay Landers, a former member, tells Dick. "People were hired, they were put into the screening room, put into the rating chair and started rating films." Further, those who challenge the MPAA rating for a particular film are not allowed to cite movies with similar scenes that got a milder rating. "It's not like a legal proceeding where you can quote precedent," says Wayne Kramer, director of The Cooler. The legal equivalent to this strange rule would be that every...
...would love to have been a bug (or a hidden camera) on the wall of the screening room as the members watched this expose of their methods and themselves. To no one's surprise, including Dick's, the film received an NC-17 rating. When he questioned board chair Joan Graves about her group's decision, she deflected matters of political embarrassment and simply told him the film got its rating for images of extreme sexuality - his brief clips from NC-17 films. And when he asked about the qualifications for board membership, adding that he might be a good...
...Savelyev's findings confirm, Ella Kesayeva, Chair of the Voice of Beslan Public Committee, told TIME in a phone interview Wednesday morning, "that the authorities are as guilty in murdering our children as the terrorists," because the Kremlin-ordered assault also abruptly killed the negotiating process that could realistically get the hostages released. "Putin had our children butchered, and used the massacre to build his one-person rule of this country...
...Savelyev is a member of our commission, and we studied his view," Alexander Torshin, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council (the upper house of Russia's Parliament) and Chair of the Beslan Inquiry Commission, told the Interfax wire agency. "But we turned it down, as the facts he cites were not persuasive...