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...council also voted to co-sponsor "Parade of the Stars." The council will lend its name in support of the program, which is intended to promote excellence in extracurricular activities...
...offer a return to comforting routine. William will enter his third year in Manor House, the ivied building where he has lived with 49 other boys. Andrew Gailey, the warm and erudite housemaster, as well as Christopher Stuart-Clark, his tutor, and Elizabeth Heathcote, Manor House's matron, will lend support to William, as they did during his parents' divorce. "William is comfortable there and popular with the boys," says Hurd. "It's a very flexible place...
...young people face on the streets and how vulnerable they are to exploitation." For that she was attacked by the Conservatives, eager to keep their hold on Parliament. Said Tory M.P. John Marshall: "It is quite wrong that a member of the royal family--however semidetached--should appear to lend credence to the view of one political party or another. It seems she wants all the benefits of being a member of the royal family without exercising the discretion that goes with...
...curious spokesman in its attempt to stop worldwide terrorism. Besides placing macabre, slasher-movie-style newspaper ads in the International Herald Tribune offering up to $2 million for information about assaults on American citizens abroad, the State Department has enlisted none other than bad-boy actor CHARLIE SHEEN to lend encouragement in a series of public-service ads at its www.heroes.net Website. "Are you the next hero?" asks Sheen, whose unheroic scrapes with the law have included serving as a prosecution witness in the HEIDI FLEISS tax-evasion case (Sheen admitted spending more than $50,000 on "sexual services" arranged...
...central characters, Sugiyama and Mai, who lend the movie its grace, subtlety and essential dignity. Her aloofness and his reticence makes their first real moment of communion surprisingly affecting, despite the too-pat neatness of its timing. There's a tender believability to their relationship that is far more convincing than a conventional romance would have been. It helps smooth over the unavoidable awkwardness of how to treat the wife, who begins by evoking sympathy and ends up offering it--not without a hitch. Sugiyama can't escape his loneliness without transferring some of it to her; one hopes...