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...Each was driven by the other’s efforts all weekend long, as the two were virtually inseparable between the lanes. In the 100-yd. backstroke the day before, the two had nearly finished in a tie as well. Bright just edged out her partner for a seventh place finish by 0.02 seconds...
WHAT ABOUT TIMING? THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S URGENT TIMETABLE IS DRIVEN BY CONCERNS THAT IMPENDING WARM WEATHER COULD DERAIL ITS MILITARY PLANS...
...Vardalos, Moonves got a Hollywood player with a lot more control than she would have had if CBS had picked up the show before the movie came out. Vardalos, 40, after telling the immigrants-shocked-by-America joke for seven years, wants to do a smaller, more character-driven family show that picks up after the couple return from their honeymoon. The family will be a little less cartoonish, not as weapons-grade Greek as it was in the film. "They will be a little hipper, a little less Old World. The risk is, we won't capture the feeling...
...carnival celebration that sambas through the streets of Rio de Janeiro this week is traditionally a showcase of coordinated public spirit. Class divisions give way to elaborate, egalitarian parades involving millions of people and months of preparation. But this year even Carnival became a reminder of Brazil's poverty-driven violent crime, as drug gangs spread terror through Rio's streets last week on the eve of the big party, killing at least 10. It was one more loud warning that to maintain order over the long term, Brazil has little choice but to tackle its epic social inequality, which...
...even fennel-scented perfume. "Personally, I would not want two stars, let alone three," says Leslie Caron, owner of another Burgundy restaurant and the actress in the movies Gigi and Chocolat. Caron, who knew Loiseau, believes the downturn in the economy and the looming war in Iraq must have driven him to despair. But money did not kill Loiseau, insists Bernard Fabre, his financial director. "All of that is completely false. The restaurants were doing quite well." And the guidebooks are denying guilt as well. "It's not a bad score or one less star that killed him," said GaultMillau...