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Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet (Kate Winslet) are children of two different cultures. Juliet's father is an English canon, and the girl is blond, worldly, brash; she was hospitalized for lung disease, and has been brought to New Zealand for the climate. Pauline, whose father manages a fish store, is dark and broody; she has leg scars from the ravages of osteomyelitis. Juliet sees their wounds as badges of spiritual aristocracy: "All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic...
...onto factory floors in Asian countries and back to the counters at American shopping malls. International human-rights organizations are pressing multinational corporations to speak up for their workers abroad, and executives are considering codes of good labor conduct. Many Americans, now accustomed to boycotting lettuce, grapes and tuna fish for humanitarian and ecological reasons, are shifting their scrutiny to the conditions under which their running shoes and their kids' toys are produced. Those conditions often include a sweatshop pace, low wages, long working hours and little freedom for workers to organize or speak their mind...
...down or struggling to win, while much more conservative Republicans such as Ohio's Michael DeWine and Missouri's John Ashcroft are expected to cruise to victory. The result may be that just as Clinton moves to the middle, he will have a much narrower pond in which to fish for votes...
...aide suggested, Massachusetts is too small a pond for a "big fish" like Weld...
Like Benton Fraser, the Canadian Mountie on CBS's new show Due South, Canada's TV industry has always been something of a fish out of water in the U.S. To be sure, American shows and movies are frequently shot north of the border, and TV stars from Michael J. Fox to Dan Aykroyd and Martin Short have came from Canada. But the xenophobic networks have always resisted Canadian programs; the few that travel south have mostly been consigned to cable, syndication and the late-night crime-time-after-prime-time ghetto...