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...little damage to Sino-American relations. Ross, on the other hand, is more than willing to expend other people’s lives to show those uppity Chinese who’s their daddy. If only the reigns of power were held by someone as brave as this Crimson columnist, then those Chinese wouldn’t be so cocky...
After Cisco, bellwether of tech bellwethers, reported dire earnings news and direr layoffs Monday evening, NASDAQ-watchers cringed for another depressing sell-fest - but the markets shrugged it off. TIME personal finance columnist Daniel Kadlec looks around and sees the mood changing: When bad news no longer surprises, it's time for these markets to start climbing back uphill. At least until summer...
Some unconventional arrangements initiated to benefit the kids continue because they suit the adults. When San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara separated from her husband, publisher Jim Heig, in 1985, she moved into a succession of nearby rentals. Though she always managed to find a place within a couple miles of Jim's house, that distance seemed to grow longer and more inconvenient as they chauffeured the kids--Morgan, then 6, and Patrick, 5--to and fro every 3 1/2 days. When Adair got married six years later, to cookbook editor Bill LeBlond, the newlyweds began looking for a home...
...censor board to resign. Then she began having misgivings. The Catholic church and ultra-conservative groups lauded her decision, but her two-month old presidency found itself assailed by powerful former friends, the media and the intelligentsia. She was lambasted for succumbing to "moral terrorism," as one newspaper columnist put it. So, on Monday afternoon, Macapagal-Arroyo cleared her schedule and watched Live Show, alone. "Well, I finally saw it," she told an aide, beaming. "And there's something really lewd about...
...star who bragged about his fondness for women and booze. Live Show is the first victim in this crusade, and many newspapers are calling it censorship. And worries of a nationwide bowdlerization campaign were exacerbated by Macapagal-Arroyo's banning of a film she hadn't even seen. One columnist, the Manila Standard's Alex Magno, wrote: "We cannot allow that noble vision of a 'moral society' to be taken hostage by those who use the same phrase to mean denial of artistic freedom." Nonsense, says anti-pornography activist, Cecile Alvarez: "There's a huge difference between obscenity and freedom...