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...romance In the Mood for Love, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai circled each other in slo-mo for an hour and a half, and their almost-touching sparked more erotic heat than a dozen Jenna Jameson epics. In the new film Leung plays a harsher version of the same character, as he languishes in room 2046 of a Hong Kong hotel and half-heartedly courts a quartet of fabulous dames: a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi), a vamp (Carina Lau), a gambler (Gong Li) and the elfin girl of his dreams (Faye Wong). That gives the director four times...
...penalty could have had a chilling effect on other Square businesses, which had already started observing the CLC’s rules so dutifully that they were closing at 1:45 a.m. in order to ensure all customers had left in time. Though involved interest groups wanted a harsher penalty for Felipe’s, they should recognize the wisdom of the CLC’s decision. The Harvard Square Defense Fund, a group of older Cambridge residents, had lobbied the CLC in its last meeting to rescind the restaurant’s license because they were worried about students...
...official tells TIME, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte was pointedly neutral on Vice President Dick Cheney's Capitol Hill lobbying to have the CIA exempted from legislation banning mistreatment of detainees. "It's above my pay grade," the spymaster said, then artfully dodged another question about whether the harsher interrogation tactics Cheney wants the agency to be free to use actually produce valuable intelligence...
SENTENCING REORDERED. For MATTHEW LIMON, 23, who was convicted in 2000 of having sex with a 14-year-old boy and sentenced to 17 years in prison; by the Kansas Supreme Court, which unanimously struck down a state law setting harsher punishments for underage homosexual sex than for underage heterosexual sex; in Topeka. The court ordered equal sentencing, saying "moral disapproval" did not justify the treatment of Limon, who would have received a maximum of 15 months in jail if he had had sex with an underage female...
...decision of whether to add student representation to the Ad Board is up to the Dean of the College and the Dean of FAS,” Ellison said. “Our peer institutions have expressed that students are generally harsher on their peers, but the issue is something that comes up every year...