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...money lost to the 24-hour cybercafes up in Los Angeles and Irvine, and security is expensive. On a typical night, 40% of their customers at 8 p.m. are underage. And besides, owners argue, most of the cafes have unblemished records. "Nobody's gambling here," says Steve Choi, 36, dapper-looking owner of the Net2Net caf?. "There's no pornography. They're not drunk. They play games, they learn how to use the computer and then they go home. It's better than hanging around...
...from Sept. 11--a New York City fireman, a policeman or perhaps the widowed spouse of one of the brave passengers who brought down Flight 93--in the balcony sitting next to Laura Bush that night. But a better-known guest is likely to be Hamid Karzai, the dapper interim leader of Afghanistan's new U.S.-backed government. Karzai is scheduled to pay Bush a visit at the White House on Jan. 28, the day before the State of the Union address. Will Karzai be a guest at the speech? Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to comment, saying...
...cover of Christopher Hitchens’s latest book finds the author pictured, dapper in a rumpled olive trench coat and five o’clock shadow, brandishing a cigarette and gazing at us with obstinate skepticism. By posing as the craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary...
...General Duong Van Minh was deposed as head of South Vietnam's government in 1964, Nguyen returned from exile in France and served as Vice Premier, but his reformist views clashed with those of the U.S.-backed military leaders and he resigned after eight months. DIED. GORDON REECE, 71, dapper television producer and p.r. wizard who transformed Margaret Thatcher's image during her successful 1979 campaign for Prime Minister by advising her on hairstyle, wardrobe, body language and speaking skills; in London. Reece was knighted...
...Lear, who spends most of his time at CBS as executive producer of "Family" and "Maude," is a dapper, droopy-mustached man of 50 with the comedy writer's congenital air of melancholy, like a sensitive spaniel; he tends to be the spokesman for the team. Yorkin, 46, who concentrates on being executive producer of "Sanford" at NBC, is a beefy, genial soul with a flushed face and a habit of punctuating his speech with a stabbing thumb that one senses could easily become a fist. Both men, in their divergent styles, bear down hard on their staffs to achieve...