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...exactly learning how to make a fire with two sticks, but perhaps just as useful. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/San Antonio, Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago, Broward Liston/Orlando, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles, Adam Pitluk/Dallas and Molly Worthen/Bryn Mawr
...bring her legend to the big screen. Blanchett does a wonderful job of paying homage to the woman behind the headlines - joyfully brandishing Guerin's signature brazenness and grounding her with tender vulnerability. And the melodrama is relatively restrained, considering the director is thrill seeker Joel Schumacher (Phone Booth) and the producer is Hollywood's explosives expert Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor). But as with so many films rooted in recent history, Veronica Guerin is already being accused of reshaping the truth for the sake of entertainment. "We expected it," Schumacher told TIME. "I've made movies before that have caused...
...cool-looking displays first. The winner at this year’s show was undoubtedly NTT DoCoMo, the national phone company of Japan. The company does not sell its products in the U.S. marketplace, but their presence at the show was still an apparent must. The giant booth, which resembled a spaceship constructed of fluorescent green plastic and brushed steel, was lit up so that its glow radiated upon its neighbors. Inside, attractive women dressed in leather miniskirts and high heels showcased the latest in video cell phone and mobile e-mail technology now used in Japan. When...
...Other talk-radio hosts have faced similar threats?and more?for their outspoken ways. In the mid-'80s, Jun Pala, a firebrand radio host in the southern Philippine city of Davao had his program interrupted when an assailant shot him in the recording booth. The gunman was believed to be a communist insurgent, angry at Pala's vocal anticommunist stance. This year, Pala was shot at again, this time by men in police uniforms. Although Pala escaped unscathed, two of his bodyguards were seriously injured. A fellow Filipino radio broadcaster wasn't so lucky. The same day Pala was attacked...
...current dispute with the security guards evidences the University’s continuing use of this practice, confirming workers’ fears that Harvard is acting like a cost-cutting corporation, says Jeff W. Booth, a HUCTW member and library employee...