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...amount of arsenic in water. And so, despite assurances from an Interior Department spokesman that Thursday's announcement simply represents a way out from the weight of accumulating citizen lawsuits and "to help us move toward a rational system," Bush's latest decision is being perceived as yet another kick in the shins...
Once a week, the Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo likes to kick back and unwind with a movie. Last Monday, the lights dimmed in the screening room at the MalacaNang Palace, and the diminutive, 53- year-old president settled back uneasily to watch Live Show, a raunchy, local sex film. Rated "R" (18 and above), the film explores the sad and desperate lives of several impoverished boys and girls who put on sex shows. Live Show had generated a Babel of commentary, and the president wanted to judge for herself: was it social realism, or porn...
...longer feel they absolutely must have the latest luxury product. Who would be impressed, anyway? ''People don't think being square is synonymous with being a sucker anymore,'' says Dan Fox, marketing planning director of the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency. Besides, they no longer seem to get a kick from spending borrowed money. Consumer installment credit dropped $342 million in December, or 0.6%, in what would ordinarily have been a busy shopping season, and a huge $2.4 billion in January...
...Crimson's first stop on its national tour was Connecticut College, where it faced off against UMass and the home team. Harvard's defense was in top form against the Minutewomen. Junior goalkeeper Danielle McCarthy made an impressive eight saves and Gunderson drew four kick-outs in order to keep the Crimson women within striking distance early on. After being down early, Harvard scored three goals in the third quarter to tie the score...
...Napster has been trying to keep its users around long enough to kick off its own pay-for-play system in June with an investment by Bertelsmann. Now, with an evidently impatient Bertelsmann getting in on the MusicNet deal, Napster will be a beggar at that banquet - executives at the new service are already imposing stringent conditions about security and legality on Napster's eventual inclusion...