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...stage adaptation that has been produced in Edinburgh, London and San Francisco. The film, with its attendant top-of-the-pops CD and published screenplay, quickly became Britain's second-biggest-ever homemade box-office winner (after Four Weddings and a Funeral, to which it acts as a bitter antidote, a strychnine chaser). The consensus out-of-competition hit at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Trainspotting invades U.S. theaters next week...
...step in Bollenbach's campaign is bound to be international. Nine years ago, Hilton's international properties were sold and are now owned by Ladbroke's, a British gambling concern. Bitter disputes followed, especially after Hilton began opening overseas hotels called Conrad. Both companies could benefit from a joint marketing agreement, if not a merger...
Last summer, the Harvard Police Union signed a three-year contract a full month before the old deal was set to expire. The speed of the negotiations stood in marked contrast to the previous round, which resulted in a bitter two-year standoff before an agreement could be reached...
Although the University doesn't have the same problems as Yale--whose strikes have been so bitter that they have drawn national media attention--Harvard has consistently failed to ink contracts without significant unrest. Consistently, that is, until the past two years...
...bigger egos to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief. Now he's just another celebrity with an absurd divorce settlement. PAULA YATES, Geldof's flamboyant wife of 10 years and the mother of his three children, is pregnant with the child of Michael Hutchence, lead singer of INXS. After bitter feuds over who would get what, it was decided that for now Yates would move back into Geldof's home and Geldof into Hutchence's. (The obvious solution, really.) Summoning up dignity outside of court, Geldof said, "There's a world outside where Paula and Bob's life...