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...CATHERINE ZETA-JONES and MICHAEL DOUGLAS are going to have their picture taken by complete strangers, they would at least like to get some cash for their trouble. When the couple married in 2000, they sold the exclusive rights to photograph the affair to British magazine OK! for $1.6 million. OK! rival, the equally punctuation-happy Hello!, decided to run pictures anyway and hit newsstands three days before OK!. Now the couple are suing Hello! and will appear in a London court at the end of January. They are expected to describe how their privacy was violated, how the unauthorized...
...grant him fresh glimpses of the beautiful land he is determined to leave. Among those he meets is an irritatingly perceptive monk ("The truth," says Khyentse Norbu, "should always be a little irritating") who tells him a traditional Buddhist fable about a sorcerer drawn into a deadly love affair with a married woman. Woven together, the stories of Dondup and the sorcerer constitute a gently mocking and distinctly Buddhist lesson on the perils of human desire. The film's alternative title, says Khyentse Norbu, is The Bitter and the Sweet of Temporary Things...
...Pakistani authorities plainly wanted?and delivered?a speedy resolution of the Pearl murder case, partly to please the Bush Administration, which viewed the affair as a test of President Pervez Musharraf's willingness to crack down on homegrown terrorists. But with the Pakistani government's rush to bring Saeed and his three co-defendants to trial and close the case, much has remained a mystery?including the identity of the man who actually wielded the knife that beheaded Pearl. However, TIME has learned that crucial fresh evidence is emerging from two Islamic militants whom Pakistani police and paramilitary rangers have...
...Karim and the other detained suspect, Naeem Bukhari, haven't yet been charged with any crime. But Karim's account suggests that Saeed may have played a relatively minor role in the Pearl affair?and that the actual killers are still at large. While prosecutors say Saeed was the mastermind who grabbed Pearl, Karim denies that Saeed was in Karachi during the kidnapping. Karim, a former mujadedin fighter in Afghanistan, has told police that the man who actually drew the knife across Pearl's throat was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a top al-Qaeda terrorist. Mohammed, whom U.S. investigators...
Perhaps the crowning irony of the whole Vaux affair is that anyone who has taken Social Analysis 34—as I have—knows that Vaux takes great pains to combat the common misconception that Ebonics is some sort of ghetto patois that is “inferior” to English...