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TOMMY OUT OF TUNE? During his years as head of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola had some relationships sour in very public ways. After launching the career of Mariah Carey, he married her; after a bitter divorce, she left the label. And when Michael Jackson decided that the label hadn't publicized his album enough, he drove a bus around Manhattan holding a poster of Mottola with horns. Now Mottola is facing another breakup. He announced last week that he wanted to start his own label and was leaving Sony, where since 1989 he has guided singers like Jennifer Lopez. Whether...
...finally getting treatment, the future seemed scarier than ever. Velma recalls one particularly poignant and lucid conversation at the hospital, in which her son wondered, "Is this it? Does this mean my life's over and I'll never do anything again?" Because Peter was an adult--and hadn't signed away his right to privacy--the hospital staff didn't tell his parents much about his condition. They had little idea what they were dealing with or what was to come...
...five of the 20 detained, including Su. "They told me we were guilty of illegal organizing," says Su. The five were held in the county jail for 20 days. "We had to sleep on the ground," recalls Zu Youming, 30. "But I wasn't too scared. After all, we hadn't done anything wrong." Secretary Bai disagrees, recalling that the group was "making trouble." Before their release on Nov. 19, the fiveprisoners had to pay $40 each to cover the cost of their prison food: two steamed buns for each meal...
...Fylingdales radar station as part of the still-embryonic U.S. missile-defense system. Fylingdales, along with bases in Greenland and the U.S., would provide early warning of incoming missiles, which - if everything works right - would then be intercepted and destroyed outside the earth's atmosphere. Hoon said the government hadn't yet decided whether to allow antimissile interceptor rockets on British soil. But he argued that ballistic missiles from states including Iraq and North Korea represented a potential "threat to our security." Criticism of the scheme has ebbed since Russia accepted America's unilateral withdrawal from the 1972 AntiBallistic Treaty...
...because he had refused to host Sharon's Foreign Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, while granting an audience to Mitzna. But it also helped Sharon score a few tough-guy points in the days after the Tel Aviv bombings. Sharon would be looking at a landslide victory if his Likud Party hadn't tarnished itself with corruption scandals (see box), which have boosted the protest vote and offered opposition parties a chance to increase their seats in the Knesset. Polls show Green Leaf, whose platform calls for the legalization of marijuana and which got only 34,000 votes in the last election...