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Jewel appears to us--and to Randy (Matt Dillon), the slacker barkeep at the film's eponymous drinking establishment--as a simple material girl. He rescues her from an apparent rape attempt, takes her home to his fixer-upper and soon finds himself innocently abetting two murders...
...France, many Americans are drawn to the sunny Provence-Cote d'Azur region, but prices are much lower in Brittany, Normandy and central France. A fixer-upper can be found for as little as $150,000, and rentals are equally attractive. A two-bedroom ski chalet in Haute-Savoie rents for $300 a month. A one-bedroom flat in central Paris goes for about $2,000 a month, as does a four-bedroom home near the beach in Nice. "Americans can find great deals on little 19th century chateaus," says Serge Henu, director of the France Chateaux agency in Brittany...
...Seoul has yielded a steady stream of revelations about unsavory ties between gangsters and politicians. One of the biggest shockers came in October when the eldest son of President Kim Dae Jung was forced to admit he had met at least twice with the powerful mobster-cum-political-fixer at the center of the scandal. Koreans nervously laughed off the finger-cutting protesters as nationalistic nitwits, but they were more alarmed by allegations of shady backroom deals between gangsters, law enforcement officials and politicians close to the President. Yeo Un Hwan, the mobster who met the President...
...Christopher shrugs off Baker's remark as "just harmless banter from an over-rated Texas fixer." He adds that he "understand[s] why [Baker] is so eager to put another Bush in the White House since he couldn't keep the last...
...with the president holed up abroad, his former political fixer on the lam, the civilian politicians unable to agree on a constitutional succession and masses of ordinary Peruvians on the street, the situation may be starting to look an awful lot like a power vacuum to Peru's generals...