Word: jay
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...LONG CAN the Western world remain obsessed with Hugh Grant's one-night tour of Sunset Strip? Three weeks ago, when the English actor was arrested in Hollywood for felonious fellatious activity with a hooker named Divine Brown, it was inevitable that late-night talk-show host Jay Leno would crack wise ("Welcome to Hollywood, or, as Hugh Grant calls it, Tonsiltown!"). But deep into July, Grant's peccadillo is still front-page news and late-night joke fodder. Last week, as he dutifully kept four talk-show dates in the U.S. to promote his new comedy, Nine Months...
...appears that Grant may get the last laugh. It is an axiom of modern show biz that every scandal is a career move. Grant may have saved his career by going on his Summer Atonement Tour--by telling Jay and Katie how sorry he was to have hurt his family and girlfriend, by schmoozing stalwartly with Regis and Kathie Lee, by enduring Larry King's penny-Freud psychoanalyzing while admitting that his own behavior was "disloyal and shabby and goatish." And by defending Hurley (who uneasily accompanied him to the Nine Months Hollywood premiere) against the predatory voyeurism...
...withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers unless contributing nations agreed to confront Serb rebels in combat. That's roughly what France has proposed to do, to the chagrin of Britain and other partners who fear the plan is brash and unrealistic. Even so, one European Union official told TIME's Jay Branegan at a meeting of European foreign ministers today that French and British positions "are becoming closer." And yet: "The British want to see a very detailed plan for how it would work, and say the only way to get the necessary troops in is by air, namely, U.S. helicopters." Said...
...time." The agreement, signed today, was concluded just days before Vietnam's expected entry into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- a group with which Hanoi had a lot more catching up to do. "Most of the European Union countries already had relations with Vietnam," TIME Brussels bureau chief Jay Branegan points out. "In the European opinion, the U.S. effort was long overdue...
Conway received both a master's degree in history and his Ph.D. from Harvard. His dissertation won the Jay prize, an award given for exceptional scholarly work on British or American institutions...