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...raise our glasses to Kelly Clarkson, the power ballad queen of the land, the American Idol of the moment. She took a weary nation (or about 18 million of us, anyway) away from our collective anxiety for an hour or so each week, no Idol feat, and for this, she is our Person of the Week...
...Iraqis claim that he shot himself in the head in his Baghdad quarters when they came to arrest him for spying for an undisclosed Arab nation. But Arab media reports and Abu Nidal's followers insist that he died of multiple gunshot wounds--which would be a remarkable suicidal feat even for a man of Abu Nidal's ingenuity...
...Kennelly, that's beside the point. "Do people compare how hard a woman can hit a tennis ball versus how hard a man can?" she asks. "Men can handle gnarlier waves, but I think it is silly to compare." (Women are beginning to attack monster waves, a feat that requires them to be towed into the wave's path...
...movie is Zhou's first outside of mainland China, but her luscious portrayal of Tong Tong, a woman by turns wide-eyed and desperate, shanghais the show. That's no mean feat for an ingenue, and except for Zhou and Glen Chin, all the film's actors are amateurs Chan plucked from the street. Despite the director's deft touch with comic characters, not all manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more...
...Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, who heads the corporate-fraud strike force, said that "some cases are more complex than others." Even with prosecutors laboring on the Enron Task Force, getting a handle on the company's complicated structure and litany of off-balance-sheet partnerships is no small feat...