Word: granted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a serious addiction to the entertainment industry. Conceived by former Spy publisher Tom Phillips, edited by former New York Post gossip queen Susan Mulcahy and lavishly bankrolled by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Mr. Showbiz dishes up everything from the Scoop of the Day to a daily Hugh Grant poll (Should Elizabeth Hurley dump Hugh? Should prostitution be legal...
...LENO Chin up: Jay's Tonight Show tops Letterman-without Hugh Grant...
...family of American aid worker Frederick Cuny said he was executed by Chechen rebels on April 14 after Russian intelligence agents spread rumors that he was an anti-Chechen spy. Cuny, who was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant last June, was on a humanitarian mission to develop an aid plan for Chechnya. Although a Russian official said his government believed Cuny was still alive, U.S. diplomats in Moscow said they agreed with the family. ISRAELI ATROCITIES ALLEGED...
After two more accidental meetings, he agrees to pretend to be her husband just for a night, to grant her respectability in the family's eyes, then to disappear. That, you know, is not going to be easy. She is beautiful (and meltingly portrayed by Sanchez-Gijon), her relatives are entertainingly fractious, and he, we discover, is an orphan with a lifelong need for the kind of noisy warmth they generate...
...took 11 days in jail, the threat of a contempt charge and finally a broad grant of immunity for Beverly Heard to testify against Congressman Mel Reynolds at his sexual-misconduct and obstruction-of-justice trial. Once on the stand, Heard took back a previous recantation and testified that the Illinois Democrat began having frequent sex with her when she was 16 and that he often paid her as much as $100 for the encounters. She said the relationship was consensual...