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Reilly on Friday said he favored this this new concept, which was put forward by University Vice President for Community Affairs Paul S. Grogan and university management. The Associated Press reported Reilly rejected an alternate plan, in which hospitals would bail out the HMO. Reilly said the plan for hospital-funded aid, which called for taxpayer-backed loan guarantees, did not provide a solution for potential future problems...
...Israeli security zone exists in southern Lebanon to protect Israeli civilians from terrorist attacks originating in Lebanon. The recent air strikes were in response to the serious escalation in terrorist activity of Hizbullah and other organizations in south Lebanon over the past two weeks. According to the Associated Press, within the eight days prior to the strike, five Israeli soldiers were killed and 12 more wounded in Hizbullah attacks. These terrorists attacks, according to CNN reports, were launched from within Lebanese villages, using the Lebanese civilians as a human shield. In order to avoid Lebanese civilian casualties, Israel chose...
...genius that designed the Fleet Center decided that all the seats should be painted that color, and from the bird's eye view of the press box, I saw it in all its canary brilliance...
Rupert Thomson's five novels have earned him the status of a cult figure, at least in the British press, but the London-based author, 44, now seems to be bidding for a somewhat more remunerative title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf; 260 pages; $23), ought to widen considerably the circle of his readership on both sides of the Atlantic. His new book, like its predecessors, conveys bizarre, surrealistic events with understated, laconic precision, but the principal subject this time out is that fail-safe crowd pleaser, kinky...
Many view the Golden Globes as a harbinger of the Academy Awards, but others see them as a way for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hands them out, to bestow upon itself a patina of credibility. New York City's Foreign Press Association is among the latter. "It's a pity that they get all the acclaim for being the foreign press association," says the New York group's director, Suzanne Adams. The remedy: a separate celebfest, the Icon Awards, set to debut in New York next year. The group will hand out statues in the fields of movies...