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...each state to decide" how to organize its military "in accordance with its own laws." As it turns out, the other eight will operate under a Commonwealth "single command," dominated de facto by Russia. But whether they will be willing or able to pay the staggering costs of modern, multimillion-troop armed forces is a question they have not yet faced...
...hiding with a multimillion-dollar price on his head, the India-born Rushdie made a surprise appearance at a dinner held by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism honoring the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment. Beforehand, TIME International managing editor Karsten Prager presented Rushdie with an article that appeared last week about the Indian writers he has inspired. Later, in a well-guarded safe house outside Manhattan, the two talked for 1 1/2 hours. "Quite simply," says Prager, "he is still determined to be heard...
...video. He is allowed to stay up past his bedtime not to watch but to host Saturday Night Live. Culkin, who was paid only $250,000 for Home Alone, received $1 million for his role in My Girl. Now whatever Mack wants, Mack gets -- video games, trips to Florida, multimillion dollar movie and merchandising deals...
...with Louisiana's problems. He started to clean up the environment, raised teachers' salaries, created trust funds for transportation and wetlands and sought to revise the tax structure. He managed to improve the state's bond rating and pushed through new campaign-finance laws that have drastically curbed the multimillion-dollar electoral extravaganzas of the past. Elected as a Democrat, he was a prize convert to the Republican Party when he defected last March. But Roemer may have moved too fast and too abruptly for his state. And in the end, he met the fate of most Louisiana reformers...
...that Raffi, in the throes of middle age, is shaking his sillies out. If you have no children, or live with them on the moon, it might be easier to explain that the most popular children's singer in the English-speaking world has chucked a multimillion-dollar career, ended his 16-year marriage and stopped eating nearly everything that tastes good, all in order to carry out an uncompromising and very grown-up mission: to alarm the rest of humankind into taking better care of Our Dear, Dear Mother. Mother Earth, that...