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...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction But why stop there? Rain's managers believe he could be the first Korean star to break into the U.S. market. Park Jin Young, the pop impresario who discovered and trained Rain, is a talented dancer and songwriter who has worked with U.S. artists like Mase and Will Smith. Since setting up camp in Los Angeles last year, Park has been shopping his prot?g? around to U.S. production companies. Rain almost managed to score a track on rapper Lil' Kim's latest album?but the plan fell apart after Kim was convicted of perjury...
Rather has been anchor now for five years. After a rocky start (his manner seemed too frenetic), Rather has hit the top and stayed there. The new CBS team, headed by the jovial, bearded impresario Van Gordon Sauter (now president of CBS News), abandoned Walter Cronkite's meat-and-potatoes style. Instead of someone in Washington reporting the news from official statements, CBS sent camera crews out in the field to picture school closings and factory layoffs. Sauter likes to talk about capturing the big emotional "moments." He chewed his staff out when it failed to show a picture...
...dancing girls on the fa?ade and next door to that you have banks and the banking and financial center, I'm not sure we will feel happy about it." LEE HSIEN LOONG, Singapore's Prime Minister, on strict guidelines for two proposed casinos in the city-state. Las Vegas impresario Steve Wynn has accused the government of micromanaging bids to build the casinos...
...pose with, the championship trophy. This dazzling hardware was to begin its triumphal procession in Providence on Thursday, and needed to be back in Foxboro to be trotted out at the Pats game by Curt Schilling and Johnny Damon on Sunday night, but Dr. Charles Steinberg, the Sox' impresario without peer, could escort it to Gotham for a Friday p.m. audience-if so desired. The BLOHARDS, two hundred strong on this November night, so desired. Of course Jane and I were among the faithful...
...drug first became a problem in Tazewell in 1998, but its national reach is well known, ensnaring even radio impresario Rush Limbaugh in a scandal that sent him into rehab. Around the nation, the statistics tell the story. A Jan. 21, 2005, report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that the number of people who had used oxycodone, the main ingredient in OxyContin, for nonmedical reasons jumped from 11.8 million in 2002 to 13.7 million in 2003. The increase happened even though OxyContin's maker stopped distributing its strongest pill, the 160-mg tablet...