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...Aaliyah's charm, however, is mystery. The young star loves to hint at private quirkiness. She says her apartment in Manhattan is littered with Egyptian objects: cat statues, Egyptian pictures, a dresser shaped like a pyramid. At the start of her career, she hid her eyes behind large dark glasses. Later on, she took to wearing her long dark hair swept in front of one eye, like '40s film star Veronica Lake. (These days she is letting both her eyes show...
...term nation-building was bandied about with more than a hint of sarcasm when President Bush was bashing what he deemed the Clinton administration?s misguided use of the military abroad. And yet, as the President lunched with U.S. peacekeeping troops at Kosovo?s Camp Bondsteel and sought to reassure the world that - contra his campaign rhetoric - the U.S. had no intention of leaving the Balkans before its NATO allies do, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the Bush team has been forced to embrace the very policy of long-term peacekeeping they had been so quick...
...insists local companies hew to greater accounting transparency. In Japan, corporations don't have to air all their dirty financial laundry to shareholders, as they do in the U.S.; a money-losing division can be hidden away as a "subsidiary" and assets can be listed at inflated values. A hint of change in that direction could spark a stock-market rally as it did in 1999, when corporations finally began to restructure?the Nikkei soared 36.8% and smaller stocks doubled...
...recommended prices for porters and transport, the usual warnings against pushy vendors selling fakes. News on bandits in the area catches our attention: it seems a little paranoid in law-abiding Japan. But it's the sizeable reward for turning Christians in to authorities that offers the most obvious hint that it has been a while since this bulletin was updated...
Americans go to great lengths for safety: We install elaborate security systems in our homes, anti-theft mechanisms on our cars and remind even our smallest children to "Stop, drop and roll" at the merest hint of fire...