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...said the British law "imposes a specific disadvantage on operators desirous of moving or establishing themselves within the Community." While the full Court of Justice won't issue a final opinion before the fall, governments are quaking over the ruling's potential effects. "This is pretty strong stuff," says Fred de Hosson, a tax partner at Baker & McKenzie in Amsterdam. "It's another wake-up call for member states" to bring their tax systems closer in line. But it's a wake-up call that could have been anticipated. Tax has long been the odd man out of European integration...
According to Hightower, big proponents of this national effort to map human cancer genomes include Eric S. Lander, director of the Broad Institute and Leland H. Hartwell, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle...
...schism between Woods and Mickelson dates back at least two years, to when Mickelson called Woods' Nike clubs "inferior." Woods boiled. "It was a little sucker punch," says Fred Funk, this year's Players-championship winner. "That creates a bit of animosity between the guys." Mickelson apologized, but the bad blood spilled over to last fall's Ryder Cup, at which U.S. captain Hal Sutton paired Woods and Mickelson against European opponents. Although teammates, they could barely look at each other. It didn't help that Mickelson played like a Sunday hacker; when he sliced an 18th-hole drive into...
...DIED. FRED KOREMATSU, 86, Japanese American whose refusal to report to an internment center became a haunting symbol of civil rights repression during World War II; of a respiratory illness; in Larkspur, Calif. In May 1942, the Oakland, Calif., welder resisted pleas from compliant friends and declined to be sent to a camp. Eventually arrested, Korematsu lost a Supreme Court challenge to the policy, but in 1983 newly discovered documents showing the government had lied to the high court led to the overturning of his conviction. He later helped win reparations for internees and was awarded the Medal of Freedom...
...scene was to be shot, Damiano would send him away on an errand. And Reems had a chance to display his indefatigable performance skills, as a burlesque comic and sex worker, made the enterprise very viewer-friendly. "Harry wasn't a great actor," says long-time porn entrepreneur Fred Lincoln, "but he was a great fucker." Reems is justly proud of his quick preparation for the money scenes: "I can get turned on by a picture of Minnie Mouse." (Fine, Harry, just don't say Pluto!). Even Federal agent Bill Kelly, who would lead the battle to put Harry...