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...ROCK. True, the remarkably cantilevered star of V.I.P. wore a bikini to her first wedding, and the lank-haired rocker rarely appears on stage without strippers. But, they repeatedly insist, they are just homey folks who, on those evenings when they're not out making a spectacle with their explicit displays of affection, like to sit at home and hang out with the kids. (She has two sons with first husband Tommy Lee; Rock has a son from a previous relationship.) The two met backstage at a VH-1 concert and, after dating for a year, got engaged last week...
Among the changes would be an explicit statement of the Faculty’s belief that study abroad is inherently an important part of the undergraduate experience—whereas currently, students who want to study abroad must prove that their program would be a “special opportunity...
Biggs is likable, if a little bland, as Benjamin. But he has to wade through Johnson's clumsy dialogue, which makes Benjamin's pre-Vietnam anomie far too explicit. ("Those people are grotesque," he complains of his parents' friends. "I want simple, honest people.") And maybe only a Brit could have envisioned Kathleen Turner, with her foghorn voice and faux Continental accent, as a bored Southern California housewife. Turner last played Tallulah Bankhead onstage, and doesn't seem to have paused for a cigarette in between. Her come-on to Benjamin is so overbearing and unsexy that...
...Sept. 11 pinch. The group is now banned in all their main overseas bases: the U.S., Britain, Australia and Canada. Bank accounts have been frozen. But the pressure may be overstated. According to Gunaratna, the LTTE continue to raise funds from the Tamil diaspora around the world, although any explicit coercion has been replaced by implicit threats. The majority of the 500,000-strong Sri Lankan Tamil community abroad backs peace. But some?among them generous donors?oppose it, fearing a settlement would threaten their ability to win permission to settle abroad as embattled refugees from a war-torn land...
According to the filing, on March 26 Highfields also sent a letter to Devita with an even more explicit statement of its intentions, and raised their offer to $5 per share. In addition, the fund said once it had made changes to Reader’s Digest, all shares in the company would be turned into voting shares, thereby relinquishing control of the company to all investors...