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Suzanne Simmonds was fed up. For 6 1/2 years, she had been unable to collect the child support her ex-boyfriend was legally required to pay. So in January 2001 she signed a contract with Child Support Network. She agreed to pay the Arizona company a $500 application fee and a 35% commission on any collections of the $3,800 owed to her daughter. After five months, the agency had pocketed $885, and Simmonds had received just $215. When she tried to get out of the contract, the company refused, ordered her to pay more than...
Typically, it is only the female member of an accused couple who is sentenced to stoning. Lawal's boyfriend was also arrested, but because shari'a requires stiff standards of proof for adultery--four reliable witnesses must testify to having seen the sexual act--the case against him was dropped. A hard-line Islamic judge ruled that baby Wasila was proof enough of Lawal's guilt. "We see this as selective application of shari'a against women," says Ugochukwu Okezie, campaign director for Nigeria's Civil Liberties Organization...
...sniffed the Mirror. Spat the Times of London: "Only a certain sort of man would be attracted to a woman whose greatest qualities are her thinness and her ability to blub on cue." And the Daily Mail suggested that Paltrow is suffering from a bruised ego now that ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck is dating Jennifer Lopez. Well, at least she figured out a way to get their testosterone pumping...
...screenwriter Mike White (see box) who came up with the idea of casting Aniston. "I thought it would be fresh," he says. "Who wouldn't want to see America's sweetheart get blackmailed for sex and try to institutionalize her boyfriend and cheat on her husband? I just wasn't sure she'd respond to the material." Aniston responded immediately: "It felt like an opportunity--a terrifying opportunity--to go out there on a limb...
...course, in America, the past is always waiting in the wings. It's like that old boyfriend or girlfriend who won't go away. On Broadway now, you can see The Producers and The Graduate. (It used to be that only film stars returned to theater on the Great White Way; now entire films do.) Playing on the silver screen are remakes of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and the old TV mini-series The Bourne Identity. Our President is a revival of sorts, at least genetically. Come to think of it, the whole concept of remixing is a kind...