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...Hilary Swank got frank. ?I?m not single. We?re trying to work our marriage out,? said the actress, who showed up to present an award, of her recent separation from husband Chad Lowe. We guess Million Dollar Baby really prepared her to take a blow with dignity...
...francs (€185); now it's €420 per person - no wonder nice guys from Winnipeg weep into their pinot. OK, so I've been known to spend more on one meal than most would in a week. That's between me, my therapist and my accountant. The million-dollar question is, can it still be worth it? The short answer is yes. The longer one is that restaurants in all price brackets charge what the market will bear, not what they're worth. Even for an experienced gastronome, the rule for approaching the high-stakes tables of Paris...
...spreadsheet, bristling with million-dollar totals, jumped from flat screen to flat screen last winter in the Washington underground of fund-raising consultants and political-action committees. It had been created by allies of Congressman John Boehner, an Ohio Republican known for massive, raucous late-night parties. A window into the science of the shakedown, the spreadsheet calculated the "efficiency" of fund-raising committees headed by various leaders of the House, showing which were most generous to other Republicans. Boehner's backers were thrilled when the widely forwarded spreadsheet produced a front-page headline in The Hill, a newspaper focused...
...Bali welcomed its early foreign visitors with splendid hospitality, inviting them to imbibe deeply and freely of its unique civilization. Yet it's questionable how much the island ultimately got out of the bargain, aside from the mixed blessing of a billion-dollar-plus tourism industry. Covarrubias was one early guest who made a major contribution. He was not a great artist, but he was a brilliant observer: for generations, everyone with a serious interest in Bali has been grateful for his book about its culture. Now everyone interested in Covarrubias is indebted to Williams and Chong for this fascinating...
...tons in 2005. The increase is all the more remarkable given the metal's surging price?gold hit a 24-year high of $541.20 an ounce on Jan. 6?due in part to anxieties about terrorism, the war in Iraq and the value of the U.S. dollar. Although not all the gold imported into India is for domestic consumption?some will be made into jewelry and exported?it's clear that India's gold appetite has not been markedly diminished even by sharply higher prices. The question is, why are Indians still buying...