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...field off the coast of Java. The problem: protracted negotiations with the government and with Indonesian oil company Pertamina, which is being privatized, over revenue sharing and the length of ExxonMobil's contract. In addition, tough labor laws, which among other things make it difficult for companies to lay off workers, discourage hiring at a time when more than 9 million Indonesians are unemployed and another 30 million?almost a third of the work force?can't find as much work as they would like...
...kill her. For Julia Stiles, that unnerving moment came at the dramatic climax of the first preview show of the David Mamet play Oleanna, her London debut. She plays the student protagonist, who tenuously accuses her teacher of sexual harassment, and torments him until he snaps. As Stiles lay on the stage and her co-star, fellow Hollywood denizen Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich, Paycheck) raised a chair as if to strike her, a woman in the front row of the Garrick Theatre shouted: "Do it!" Stiles, 23, was shaken. "It was so frightening," Eckhart says, speaking to TIME...
...accompanies the position of head critic at a heavily circulated newspaper. The important point is not that he gave Ella Enchanted a better star rating than, say, Memento, but that he has built notable bridges between experimental filmmakers and mainstream audiences in a way no other working critic can lay claim...
...that effectively grants fetuses the legal status of persons. At issue is clearly not the protection of pregnant women—an otherwise identical bill that dropped the-fetus-as-person language was shot down. Even many pro-life supporters unapologetically admit that the law is intended to lay the groundwork for a future legal challenge...
...unexampled simplicity of the manipulations is enlightening. Perhaps the vadir of corruption lay in Allegheny County where the Mellon interests obtained a majority for Senator Pepper. For "watchers" at the polls, the campaigners spent some $350,000 to hire some 35,000 men. Since the total vote for Pepper was but 80,000, it is obvious that, had these party hirelings carried with them only one family vote beside their own, almost all the votes cast for Pepper could be said to have been bought. This is the large scale, the breath-taking exaggeration, the emergency operation of American habits...