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...carnage is a sign of an epic shift in the drug business. From the early 1970s until a couple of years ago, if you went out on the streets of New York City to score cocaine, you'd look for a Colombian trafficker or a Dominican who dealt with a Colombian. Nowadays, you're just as likely to find yourself face-to-face with a Mexican. Your dealer's ethnic roots probably won't matter to you so long as the product is as advertised. But to DEA agents, the decline and fall of Colombia's once impregnable Cali cartel...
...there's hardheaded career calculation here too. Hollywood, which gave her an Oscar in 1973 for Cabaret, pretty much washed its hands of Liza years ago, and even Broadway hasn't been very hospitable lately. Her last appearance, replacing Julie Andrews as the star of Victor/Victoria in 1997, got mixed reviews and ended prematurely because of her health problems. On a concert tour in the months that followed, she began canceling performances, alienating fans and bookers alike. When she called in sick at the last minute for a tribute in her honor thrown by Burt Reynolds in Los Angeles--then...
...accounts, she has got herself back up--swearing off bad substances and giving her voice the rest it never quite got following her throat surgery. A year and a half ago, when she approached lyricist Fred Ebb, her longtime collaborator, about helping to put together a Broadway show, he said he'd do it only if she assured him she would get herself into shape. "I told her if I couldn't sit in a room and listen and be proud of her, I'm out. I said I don't want to see you fail." Now, claims...
...fans of boxing discovered a century ago, games become more socially acceptable when they're confined to arenas and given rules. And the new, paintball-like feel may even improve Quake's reputation in the eyes of teachers, parents and legislators in the post-Columbine era. "We are sort of a poster child for violence in video games," says John Carmack, id's founder and owner, "but when people sit down and have a good time in Quake III, it's hard for them to think this is a bad thing...
Once upon a time, not so long ago, children grew up listening to fairy tales like Cinderella, with enchanted castles and Prince Charmings. And today we can see a lot of stressed-out adults and an increase of violence around the world. If that is what happened to the people raised on pleasant fairy tales, what will be the case with Pokemon fanatics? How will obsession with this game affect the generation of the 3rd millennium? ALEX O.R. DE LIMA Sao Paulo, Brazil...