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...Accusation #2: The "Tom Ripley" Affair. This is unsubstantiated gossip if I've ever heard it, but I might as well report it. According to the New York Post, Hollywood is buzzing that Matt Damon is unhealthily obsessed with... Mark Wahlberg. [collective murmur] It's an elaborate story - according to columnist Richard Jonson, Matt fears Wahlberg as his Ripley-esque rival; Wahlberg is more "real," coming from the streets of Boston instead of the sheltered life of Cambridge and Harvard and Wahlberg can easily snatch up the roles that Damon is too prissy to play. Damon's growing obsession with...
...necessarily translate into an aggressive campaign against graft. "This is a move that primarily protects Yeltsin and his former top aide Pavel Borodin, who originally brought Putin to work in the Kremlin," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "It now looks as though the investigation of the Mabetex affair, the biggest scandal of the Yeltsin administration, which involved allegations of Kremlin officials taking bribes from a Swiss construction company, may be buried along with Skuratov's career. Unless, of course, they're taken forward by the Swiss magistrates investigating them...
...whole Band-Aid off in one swift tug. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein has ordered plaintiffs' lawyers and tobacco companies to discuss a single settlement to end all tobacco litigation in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The so-called "tobacco wars" have been a piecemeal affair so far, with many different types of plaintiffs dealing with different laws in different jurisdictions. To Weinstein, who has a history of consolidating and simplifying convoluted product liability cases, this is not only confusing but perhaps also unjust. For example, it is possible that awards resulting from a couple of early...
...Random music news item of the week: a weekly paper in Australia got into trouble for excoriating Natalie Imbruglia for promoting her supposed lesbian affair, saying "Not only does no one criticize some stars for their lesbian relationships but now it's a form of advertising." As the paper accurately noted, Imbruglia is dating the lead singer of Aussie band silverchair. Problem is, the lead singer of silverchair is Daniel Johns, who at last check was certifiably male...
...prominent person who would invigorate the ticket is former Maine Sen. George J. Mitchell. Mitchell has extensive legislative and government experience: He was the Senate majority leader for five years. In the Senate, he worked tirelessly on the Clean Air Act, the Iran-Contra affair and health care legislation. Most importantly, Mitchell was a prominent mediator and architect of the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland. His efforts in this area have shown him to be a selfless public servant dedicated to peaceful resolution of the most prickly international issues. "[Mitchell] makes it a special ticket," said Boston Mayor Thomas...