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...blood of Hollywood's new junior class, several of whom grew up in counterculture families. Thurman's mother was once married to Timothy Leary-who is also, coincidentally, Ryder's godfather. Thurman's father is a highly regarded scholar of Buddhism. Charles Bukowski was a frequent houseguest at the DiCaprios' when Leonardo was growing up in Los Angeles. The actor's best childhood friend was Abbie Hoffman's son. And Sarah Jessica Parker grew up idolizing Cesar Chavez and attending peace marches with her parents...
...speaking Irish. Friel's convention is difficult to accept, especially when his play deals with language at such a fundamental level and is so firmly grounded in realism. Director Howard Davies compounds the problem by failing to distinguish when characters are speaking in translated Irish or actual English, causing frequent confusion...
...well as the Pentagon, the State Department and FBI intelligence services, hasa $28 billion-a-year budget. That is likely to shrink, given thecost-cutting mood in Congress. Its most expensive items are the billion-dollar spy satellites that former CIA Director James Woolsey, who had frequent funding battles with Congress, wanted to upgrade. But Senate critics complain that the CIA already has six photographic spy satellites sitting in warehouses, which, along with the ones in orbit, could take pictures for at least the next decade. New satellites for intercepting communications signals would be parked most of the time over...
Little wonder, then, that nowadays Castro's most frequent dinner guests are not fellow ideologues, but globe-trotting tycoons like Pierre Cardin, Ted Turner and Lee Iacocca, who can bring in the additional capital that Cuba desperately needs. In each meeting, Castro vows that he will never abandon socialism but also promises to continue holding open an economic window to the breezes of the free market. ``We have to be ready to conduct the necessary reforms to adapt our country and our economy to the present world situation,'' he says. Rough translation: until Castro gets his country up and running...
...second floor, travelers can--for a fee--shower, nap on a recliner, have their clothes pressed, use fax and copy machines, hire secretarial support or work at stations equipped with computer links and telephones. A bus shuttle in the reception area on the ground floor provides a fast and frequent link with terminals...