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...field trip for the 24 kindergartners from Woodside Avenue School has all the noisy excitement of the old-fashioned kind, with kids tumbling out of a school bus eager to see, hear and touch things outside their classroom. But the field-trip destination is not the usual venue, like a museum or zoo. It's a Petco store. Tour guide Jennifer Rohan, manager of the Ramsey, N.J., pet-supply emporium, lets the kids pet a quivering chinchilla ($129.99, food and shelter sold separately), squawk at a taciturn macaw named Oscar ($2,399.99) and find Nemo the clown fish...
...today, it's not certain anybody would hold up a stop sign in front of them, either." Take, for example, the magistrates' allegations about stock manipulation. Stocks worldwide were hammered after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and Vivendi was no exception. In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission, eager to calm the markets, immediately waived its restrictions on stock repurchases. But in France, the Commission des Opérations de Bourse, or cob, didn't go as far, and Messier's decision to spend more than j1 billion buying back 21 million shares breached some of its rules...
...just getting around to publishing the follow-up, Birds Without Wings (Secker & Warburg). What has he done in the intervening decade? A few short stories, a biblical preface, and a lame children's novella called Red Dog. With his fans clamoring for more of the same, and detractors eager to prove him a one-hit wonder, it's little surprise that he told a reporter in April 2001 that writing after Corelli was like "being stood stark naked in Trafalgar Square and being told to get an erection." Britain's Daily Telegraph went so far as to call the release...
...naval training team, arrested by Iranian forces after straying into Iranian waters during a storm. The sailors quickly apologized on TV, and after four tense days they were released as moderates in Tehran apparently prevailed in an internal power struggle. But hard-liners in the Revolutionary Guards had seemed eager to goad London, suggesting the men were special forces. According to Sadegh Ziba Kalam, professor of political science at the University of Tehran, Iran wanted to show "that it is a powerful country in the region that cannot be circumvented and ignored." Tehran has lots of reasons not to appear...
Countless women were eager to bed him and, in the case of the older and wealthier ones, to support him--"ardents," he called them. Friends, colleagues and hangers-on were willing to forgive him almost anything because of his gifts and because of an underlying innocent sweetness they saw in him. (Not everyone, though: the young Kenneth Tynan described him as "a surly little pug, but a master of pastiche and invective. Thinks himself the biggest and best phoney of all time, and may be right...