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...late-night fix of primo Italian dishes and sleaze at a safe distance, book a window table at Caffe Di Roma at 3 Soi Patpong 2, (662) 632 8250, for a fine meal accompanied by a grand view of the red-light district's notorious nightlife. It's one weird circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spots | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...Sakamoto's success is also the root of the publishing mandarins' ire: he took their most potent weapon?their ability to fix prices?and turned it against them. One of the most stubborn vestiges of the Japanese government's protectionist bent is its 89-year-old saihan law, which makes it illegal to sell new books at a discount. The law's defenders spout a host of muddled rationales for preserving it, arguing variously that it promotes literacy or protects copyrights or maintains the intellectual integrity of the nation's literary output. This in a country where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War of Words | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...will be looking to the Labour government to pitch in with funds that it has previously denied the theater. As ever, he chooses his words carefully, and his message is straightforward: "We're putting together a company, we have an artistic director, we have a vision. Now help us fix the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Help Us Fix the Roof' | 2/9/2003 | See Source »

...taking center stage. The interpersonal dynamics between the various Transformers are handled in a credible fashion that restore realism to the most unrealistic scenarios. This not to imply that action is given short shrift, for the fighting is frequent and furious. Nor does the action serve some obligatory masturbatory fix; he cleverly avoids the tedium that accompanies extended battle scenes by subordinating them to the plot. The novel maintains a fantastic tension throughout, with just the right number of pauses to let the reader catch his breath. The tone is spot-on; the ever-present sense of doom hovers cloudlike...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eugenesis Transforms a Childhood Classic | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...continue to spend my free time pondering just what kind of defense jock straps can offer in the face of a paintball gun (Jackass), and boyfriends who let their girlfriends be Internet exhibitionists (Sex2k). Even with the pressures of college life, I’ll keep getting my MTV fix. Whether the channel—with or without me—can get other people to join in this obsession- remains to be seen...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Real World of MTV | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

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