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After he was not selected during this weekend's NFL Draft, senior Mike Clare agreed to a free agent contract with the Cleveland Browns late Sunday night. The Browns officially announced the signing yesterday...
...belief, maybe a hope, that this time the Kabila is different." Certainly the capital is a lot less tense than at any time in the past year. Possession of foreign currency, banned by the elder Kabila, is legal again. And his son is negotiating to end a controversial contract granting an Israeli company a monopoly on the export of diamonds. Crucially, "he hasn't just broken the contract unilaterally, as would have happened in the past," says another Western diplomat. "It could be that he's scared of the repercussions, but it also seems that he wants Congo to have...
...when she broke into Thailand's entertainment industry at the age of 15, the pert half-Thai, half-American singer was on the forefront of the Eurasian trend. Today, the majority of top Thai entertainers are luk kreung. Now 20, Young is the first Thai to sign a contract with a major U.S. label, Warner Brothers Records (owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of Time), which she hopes will elevate her into the Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera pantheon. Back at home, Young has to contend with a gaggle of luk kreung clones who mimic her brand of bubble...
...with a contract marriage drawn up by a lawyer, my great-grandparents set out to achieve the American Dream. Fong See and Letticie raised five mixed-race children and ran five antique stores in southern California. Fong See became the patriarch of Los Angeles Chinatown. He was the first Chinese in the U.S. to own an automobile and was one of the few Chinese to do business with the white community by selling props to the nascent film industry and antiques to customers like Frank Lloyd Wright. Despite these successes, Fong See's four sons?all American-born citizens...
What happens if the writers strike? The current contract between the W.G.A. (made up of 11,000 movie and TV scribes) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (a consortium of major studios with a negotiating team that includes Disney's Robert Iger and DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg), expires May 1. During a strike, cameras could keep rolling on completed movie scripts. TV too would be fine--for now. The rest of this season's comedies and dramas have been shot, while news and reality shows would be exempt. But even though networks have stockpiled some shows, be prepared...