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...standing-in-my-Japan," culture-intoxicatee. I am returning to the U.K. at the end of March, but, paradoxically, my tie with Japan is due to grow much stronger in mid-May when my wife gives birth and I become the father of an infant Japanese-Briton...
...Winners DAME EDNA EVERAGE Cross-dressed Aussie gets role on Ally McBeal. You'll know they've jumped the shark when an Edna-Ally-Bon Jovi love triangle is revealed STEPHEN DOWNING Mentally impaired Briton is freed after 27 years in prison for a bum murder rap. At least he got to miss the Thatcher years LARRY KING Voluble host re-signs with CNN for nearly $7 million a year. Heck, we'd chat with a totally with-it babe like Angie Dickinson for free Losers QUEEN ELIZABETH II Her Majesty may sacrifice her royal train to cut costs...
...with their own weapons. Dave mowed down three more Taliban, then sprinted to the main building along the north wall, where two Red Cross workers had just begun a meeting with the prison governor. "He burst in and told us to get out of there," says Simon Brooks, a Briton and a Red Cross staff member. "He was really shaken up. He said there were 20 dead Northern Alliance guys, and the Taliban were taking control of the fort." As Dave stayed behind to try to rescue Spann, the two Red Cross workers climbed up to the fort's parapet...
...British SAS commander re-established contact with Dave, still penned in with the TV crews. The SAS soldier told the Alliance commander that after two more strikes, his men should fire all their weapons. "Our guy is going to try to make a break for it," said the Briton. The conversation turned to Spann. "From what I understand, he was already gone before we got here," said an American...
Culture shock is a constant factor in matching contractors to jobs. Martin Kelman, 35, a Briton who until recently headed Dataworkforce's U.S. office in the Dallas suburb of Plano, says he found U.S. business culture "a real buzz," because "in the United States, it doesn't matter if you have the right school tie or who your father was." But one contractor he brought in from Indonesia found the change unsettling. "One day he's riding his bike to work in Jakarta; the next he's in Manhattan," chuckles Kelman. The company nurtures its contractors on the road. Brayshaw...