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Jackson makes headlines with (to use the kindest phrase) unusual antics, like displaying his 8-month-old son outside an upper-floor window. Now he is accused, in effect, of dangling a 12-year-old's innocence over the ledge of his own confused sexual need. Many people think of Jackson as a pathetic predator. Many more don't think of him at all except as the albino freak who used to be Michael Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cuffed One | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...runs the day-to-day business from his ninth-floor office at the Cheung Kong Center, while his father, on the 70th floor, guides strategy. Some investors wonder if the relatively unknown Li can effectively succeed his father, 75, whose net worth Forbes estimates at $7.8 billion. Still, it is widely assumed that Li--and not his younger brother, telecom tycoon Richard Li--is next in line. Victor avoids the issue but notes how much he's like Dad. "We almost always arrive at similar conclusions," he says. That may be a result of close tutoring. Father and son share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTOR LI, CHEUNG KONG: Can He Follow the $7.8 Billion Man? | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...mother of their new son, lovingly renovated into a single cozy home. It is the kind of place Hansel and Gretel would run to. Inside, a coal fire hisses softly, and Burton, in clothes of muted color, but color nonetheless, sock-slides his way across the wood floor and into his study, where he flops with charming gracelessness onto a red velvet couch. He is as brooding as a Muppet. "People really know me know that I'm not dark at all," he says. "I mean, at all. Like, yeah, I like monster movies, but it's cathartic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Big Fish In His Own Pond | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...floor walk-up. The ceiling has collapsed, and pigeons are nesting in the exposed rafters. The bathtub is--where else?--in the living room. Ah, home sweet Hell's Kitchen home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Tumbledown Hopes | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...quest, these boys would not have been wounded. The 21year-old would have finished his service and moved on to college. The newlywed would have a normal start of family life, and the new father would be able to run after his daughter instead of dragging himself across the floor. I admire these guys' optimism about their situation. But this could have been avoided. VANESSA LANDRY-CLAVERIE St.-Lambert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 1, 2003 | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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