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...after they were my friends," he says with his ready chuckle. "I was very clean-cut, hammy and let's-put-on-a-show. They were very Beckett and Chekhov." But the qualities that made him repellent to the Method types later made him a natural for those extra-credit activities, like being a host on awards shows (he did the Tonys in June) and Saturday Night Live (in late 2001), that get a novitiate supernova noticed. He is already being mentioned as a likely candidate to be the next Bond...
...Pakistan's Balancing Act The article "Is Pakistan a Friend or Foe?" gave an unfair perspective on Pakistan's role in helping the U.S. battle terrorism [Sept. 29] and did not give enough credit to how Pakistan, with its meager resources, has managed to help the U.S. Every country in the world has some radical religious elements. That the Pakistani people discuss their future goals in a civilized manner shows how that relatively young country is evolving into a nation. The U.S. and the rest of the world are deeply in debt to Pakistan for clamping down on the Taliban...
...Back then, she still considered herself a victim of the 1997 Asian economic crisis. The crash didn't mean the loss of her job, but it did mean a drop in pay and no more Christmas bonuses?money she had always relied upon to pay off her high-interest credit card bills. "There was no way I could afford to pay off my credit cards without the bonus," she says. "I didn't think I'd ever get my life moving again...
...feting his right-hand man because Fini had suggested that immigrants "who live, work and pay taxes in Italy" should be permitted to vote in local elections, a plan dear to the liberals' hearts. When a ruling party or coalition takes a popular idea away from its opponents, grabs credit for it, and even manages to get the opposition cheering, that's smart politics. But it's also a sign of just how hapless opposition parties are right now, not just in Italy but in countries across Europe, where opposition groups of all political persuasions are having trouble finding their...
...Hence the dongle. Microsoft and Vodafone hope the device will spur people to buy things online that cost pennies or a few dollars. These "micropayments" are often too small for credit-card companies to handle efficiently, yet they seem to hold the key to reaching consumers who want to buy a single song or game. Microsoft senior vice president Pieter Knook claims that the emergence of a micropayment infrastructure will unleash a torrent of software - development activity that will deliver as yet unimagined programs to the market. This, he says, will transform the mobile-phone industry into one that...