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...vehicle arrives complete with two TVs, two VCRs, a stocked wet bar (no fruit juice), snacks, interior mood lighting and a chauffeur named Daniel. Upon request, the company also supplies balloons and a magical red carpet. Only available on weekends, the stretch Navigator is already booked for the upcoming prom season. Keep in mind: To bring this phenomenon of the automobile industry up to Boston for the night costs $300 an hour and the meter starts running when the white-gloved chauffeur leaves New York City and stops the moment he returns. To say its worth it, well, that would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...Knussman. First there was a painful year of fertility treatments. Then complications in Kim's pregnancy forced her doctors to induce labor prematurely, leaving her bedridden. Kevin, a trooper with the Maryland state police for 18 years, applied for extended leave to tend to his wife and infant, a request that fell under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and a state law that provides paid leave for primary caregivers. He was allotted just 10 days, at the end of which his wife was still hemorrhaging and too weak to care for the baby. He asked for more time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Time for Daddy | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

There's Eddie (Sean Penn), the casting director who has spent enough years in therapy to diagnose his own longing for female love and yet has learned sufficiently little from his expensive vocabulary to chase his analysis with a request for a blow job. There's Artie (Garry Shandling), Eddie's pal who possesses the almost laudable ability to ignore decades of feminist screaming and offer his friend the sexy runaway (young Oscar-winner Anna Paquin) he's found in an elevator as a `pet.' There's Mickey (Kevin Spacey), Eddie's best friend, whose overtreated platinum blond hair...

Author: By Francesca Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HURLYBURLY | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...Britain's request reflects a more European approach to dealing with terrorism. "France, for example, places a much higher premium on intelligence and threat avoidance," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Sometimes they prefer to press the terrorists' host country to police their activities rather than get them extradited, which can spur further terrorist attacks." Washington, however, remains determined to see Bin Laden in an orange jumpsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taliban Promises Bin Laden Curbs | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...only a phone call away. Cute and thoughtful gifts can be delivered without much hassle. Delivery isn't just for pizza anymore, but still pizza remains a good place to start in the search for Valentine ideas. Tommy's, that late-night mainstay, will bake heart-shaped pizzas on request. With a delivery time of 45 minutes or less, this cheap yet tasty option is a clever last-minute idea. What better way to say "I love you" than with pepperoni...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Speedy Delivery | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

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