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...Stern, by contrast, had a terrific week. The radio shock jock's first book, Private Parts, already has 1 million copies in print, little more than a week after publication, and has debuted at No. 1 on the Publishers Weekly nonfiction best-seller list. Crowds lined up around the block in midtown Manhattan last week just to get Stern to autograph copies. Quite a response to a 435-page autobiography filled with explicit sex talk, nasty put-downs of such celebrities as Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall, and rampant ethnic slurs (''How do you like those Hispanic chicks...
...green light came from Washington. ''We want to put in hospitals as part of the development,'' Irl said. ''You don't want your tourists getting sick and dying.'' Irl said -- as does just about everybody one runs across in Vietnam -- that the MIA issue is a stumbling block, yes, but an issue, no. ''Hanoi is bending over backward looking for old bones.'' The trouble is, according to the herd of entrepreneurs moving cross the country like a solid wind, Bill Clinton has played out his string with the Pentagon, what with all the base closings and the gay controversy...
...people disagree on what we should do about it. At one end are the true believers, like physicist James Hansen, who recently argued that oil executives should be put on trial for crimes against humanity. At the other are the truly doubtful - like Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who helped block a Live Earth concert from being held on the Capitol's grounds last year - who are convinced that the environmental cost of climate change will prove less disastrous than the expense of curbing it. In between there's plenty of room for rational disagreement...
...While red-eye screenings, especially midnight showings, have been on the rise since the release of the first Star Wars prequel in 1999, lines around the block for hours beforehand - the tradition that gave birth to the idea of "blockbuster" films - have become something of an anachronism. What was a necessity in the days before you could buy tickets on the Web has now become a matter of choice: lightsaber-wielding guys and Harry Potter-bespectacled kids happily line up to commune before a film. "In the '80s, if you wanted to go see a movie on a Friday night...
Purpose-built for the poor, the tenement block has never seen good days, but someone once cared enough to decorate its narrow hall with a print of a wide-eyed child. Now a real child, no more than 2 years old, dirty and distressed, holds himself up on the open door. Police officers Nick Weston and Amanda Lovegrove have come to this housing project in Hackney, a London borough northeast of the city center, to investigate reports of a knife attack. They are arresting the toddler's uncle, who admits brandishing a kitchen blade but says he was just protecting...