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...years ago, when he was the thug in "From Here to Eternity"), I wondered why the producers bothered to include recent winners. Where were Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Lisa "She's Everywhere Else" Minnelli? And could Joan Fontaine call a truce with her sister Olivia de Havilland and appear just this once on the same stage? At least Liz and Liza missed only a photo op. Last night three men won Oscars and still couldn't be there: Eminem (best song, from "8 Mile") because he's a shy person, Conrad Hall (cinematography, "Road to Perdition") because he is dead...
...minority of the populace in Baghdad and in western Iraq will not take part in defense operations. The majority, however, appear to be highly indignant at the invasion of their fatherland, regardless of the degree of their love of Saddam. In this sense, morale is high in spite of the bombings. It is national pride and dignity at stake now and they say they are willing to fight on with Saddam against the foreign invaders. It remains an open question whether they will fight on if he falls...
...cases outside China, which have almost all involved relatives and caregivers of the victims. One frightening exception to this pattern of transmission is the outbreak at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong's down-at-the-heel Mongkok district. Six ill-fated guests on the hotel's 9th floor appear to have caught the disease from semiretired medical professor Liu Jianlun. He is believed to have been solely responsible for carrying the disease from Guangdong into Hong Kong in mid-February, after reportedly catching it while treating patients at a Guangzhou hospital. Scientists think Liu, 64, came into close contact...
...many of them also don disposable gowns and hats for further protection. Despite such precautions, says Fung, the disease may already have spread far beyond what medical authorities first expected. "There seem to be more and more cases popping up, and we don't know how many more will appear. I doubt this will be over any time soon...
...nine stories in Joe Ollmann's new black and white paperback, "Chewing on Tinfoil," (Insomniac Press; 155 pp.; $15.95) feature some sort of (un)lovable loser. The alienated high-school kid, office milquetoast, pretentious layabout, lapsed art student, and bowl-hair-cut kid: all these and more appear in its pages. Ollmann's work is new to me, and it has the leaps and falls of a new artist extending himself. Some of the tales are artless swipes at the usual archetypes, but enough of the stories surprise you with odd details or an unexpected twist to make them...