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...enemy territory, and his car is his trusty tank. But that driver feels more like a doughboy stuck in a bunker. The traffic won't budge; his car can't fly over the ones in front of him or scoot under a 24-wheeler. In movies, says Donald De Line, producer of The Italian Job, "we get to watch these characters get up on sidewalks and beat traffic and go down staircases. When it works, a movie car chase is a satisfying experience." It's what the movies do: make fantasy real...
...DIED. Donald Regan, 84, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and White House chief of staff; in Williamsburg, Virginia. Forced to resign in 1987 because of the Iran-contra scandal, Regan, who had previously headed Merrill Lynch, was the driving force behind the Ronald Reagan Administration's tax cuts and downsizing of government. After his resignation, Regan wrote an autobiography, which described his frequent clashes with First Lady Nancy Reagan and revealed her consultations with astrologers...
...thought it was all over. This virus gives no slack." DONALD LOW, chief of microbiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, after the city suffered a new outbreak of SARS...
...Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova, 16, pocketed $750,000 from Prince. The lucrative deals are a risk: athletic-company endorsements mean the kids lose amateur status and can't compete in college athletics, which can push them prematurely into the pro arena. The parents of tennis wunderkind Donald Young Jr., 13--the No. 1 player in his age group in the country--have been fending off agents since he was 11. "For now, we want to keep him amateur," says Donald Young Sr. "At this point, it's not about money. We want to keep control and guide him through...
...SENTENCED. DONALD PARFITT, 44, a forklift operator; to 180 hours of community service for stealing the fifth installment of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series; in Suffolk, England. Parfitt tried to sell the pages of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which he claimed he found in a parking lot, to a newspaper for ?25,000 (about $41,550). The book launches on June...