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...company no longer has the ability to set prices, has become a wasting asset. De Beers plans to reduce the stockpile by $1.5 billion next year--and to pump the savings into ad campaigns aimed at fostering consumer demand. The company has also launched an aggressive effort to tap new sources for gems. Last month De Beers bought Vancouver-based Winspear Diamonds, which owns a prized deposit in Canada's Northwest Territories...
Looks like you can cross off Bill Richardson from the shortlist for jobs in the Gore administration. The beleaguered energy secretary absorbed another blow Thursday when Al Gore took aim at rising fuel prices, urging President Clinton to tap federal petroleum reserves in order to stave off a winter of soaring heating costs - and an autumn of voter discontent. The presidential hopeful, campaigning near Washington, called on Congress to allocate $400 million in energy assistance for low-income families, and to provide tax credits to oil distribution companies...
Eternity: across the sidewalks of Sydney last century, street poet Arthur Stace meticulously chalked his hope. Last Friday evening, eternity was writ large in Sydney's Olympic Stadium at the climax of the Opening Ceremony's hourlong Australian cultural showcase. As tap dancers gave way to 13-year-old Nikki Webster and Djakapurra Munyarryun being levitated together toward the heavens, fireworks erupted across a screen in the shape of the Harbour Bridge, with Stace's copperplate script emblazoned...
After the horsemen, the stilt walkers, the fire eaters and the tap dancers, it was the turn of the athletes to show off their colors in the opening ceremony. The demands of fashion sit uneasily with the necessity to design a uniform that will suit every shape of athlete, from basketball player to gymnast to weight lifter. And the tension tells. The countries that do best in the clothing stakes are those that have a national dress - African countries, notably Nigeria, Lesotho and Swaziland, showed off their traditional clothing. Some teams compromised by sending out a couple of athletes...
...most unexpected nomination of the MTV Video Music Awards highlights dancing's renewed prominence. Alanis Morissette's clip So Pure, which the singer directed, is up for Best Choreography in a Video (Robinson and Henson are also nominated; Landon twice). Morissette took ballet, jazz and tap-dance lessons as a child. "Now I only tap-dance if I'm waiting in airports," she says, laughing. In So Pure she shows off her skills. The video, choreographed by Kevin O'Day and Anne White, features Morissette dancing through the decades--at a '50s sock hop, at a '90s rave. She taps...