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...outside Arafat's window, the tide of the Mediterranean Sea lashes the shoreline in the blackness of the night. But the soft splashes of the waves do nothing to cut the foreboding that fills the room. On a TV in the corner is a live broadcast of the Israeli elections. Tonight Arafat's dinner seems more like a wake. His archenemy, Ariel Sharon, hasn't claimed victory yet, but with the earliest projections, Arafat has seen enough. He begins spooning up his daily bowl of vegetable soup, listening blankly as his companions talk approvingly of how Israeli Arab voters have...
...ground, Western governments have focused mainly on warning victims or trying to shame potential clients. In Moldova, the U.S. embassy funded two half-hour programs about the trade to be broadcast on state television and in schools. In Kosovo, the iom printed 20,000 pamphlets-in English-to target the international community there. The pamphlets recount the true story of a young woman, Maria, who lived eight to a room and was forced to have sex with up to five men a night. "You pay for a night," it admonishes readers. "She pays with her life...
...What next? The RTL stock swap left intact a cash horde of more than $10 billion, which Bertelsmann earned from its sale of stock in AOL after the online service announced its merger with Time Warner (TIME's parent). Though global in outlook, Bertelsmann has relatively few broadcast and Internet assets in North America, so the German giant could soon be trolling for bargains among companies that have been bloodied by the precipitous fall of the U.S. high-tech stock market nasdaq. The RTL deal also provided outsiders an intriguing glimpse into Bertelsmann's finances. Company officials...
...Gary Giddins amply demonstrates in his biography "Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years, 1903-1940," Bing was an instant hit on records and radio, and in the movies. He starred in Paramount's "The Big Broadcast" of 1932 and would stay at the studio for 24 years, through 60 or so features, including six "Road" movies, three films with "Rhythm" in the title, two versions of "Anything Goes" and "Going My Way," which won him an Oscar as Best Actor. His career could have won him a lifetime award as Biggest Star. Or very nearly...
...Crosby hadn't been a kid when he first starred in movies (he was nearly 30 when "The Big Broadcast" came out) and as his career ripened he had to adjust. In "Here Come the Waves" he was still playing a crooner who makes the girls scream, but here he was impersonating not himself but the younger Sinatra, who had become the bobbysoxer's rage. By the 1950s Crosby was part of a parade of aging male stars (Bogart, Cooper, Gable) making love to actresses young enough to be their daughters. For Bing, art was mirroring life: He was costarring...