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...evidence of the abuse they suffered to committees of enquiry set up by the Irish government. Some 3,000 men and women have come forward with stories of physical and sexual abuse against members of the Christian Brothers, the Sisters of Mercy and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Jacinta Madden, a lawyer working for a Dublin-based firm representing over 700 claimants, says that "the church is defending its stance very strongly, which is a little ambiguous, because recently they contributed $110 million to the fund for compensating these people." With the threat of legal action looming, the Christian Brothers...
This being a major-studio production--director John Madden's first since his Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love--the main Greeks are played by an Englishman (John Hurt), a Welshman (Christian Bale) and a Spaniard (Cruz, pre-Tom Cruise). Corelli is a coffee-table movie: one leafs through the gorgeous vistas and nods through the narrative. That leaves plenty of time to ponder Cage's dilemma. Does he keep paddling in the mainstream or return to the edge of weirdness...
PLEADED GUILTY. STEVE MADDEN, 44, shoe designer and proponent of the platform sneaker; to stock fraud and money laundering; in U.S. District Court. Madden, whose fans include Sarah Michelle Gellar and MTV's Ananda Lewis, agreed to pay some $8.2 million in fines and to relinquish the directorship of his company. He will probably face 41 to 51 months in prison...
...launching with between 15 and 25 games. Nintendo, true to its code of silence, won't say how many outside developers are working on GameCube, but that it has any is significant. Previously, the company subsisted almost entirely on its own games. Now popular sports games like Electronic Arts' Madden NFL will be on the roster...
...does a serious workout. He is a fitness fanatic even on the road, as these photos taken during the campaign show. While he was Governor, Dubya's favorite place to throw the steel around was the University of Texas gym, overseen by strength and conditioning coach Jeff (Mad Dog) Madden. "He showed up in a full sweat," for a 60-to-90-min. regimen with "a lot of dumbbell work--an athlete's workout," says Mad Dog. And what focus. While a gunman outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was taking potshots at the People's House, Bush soldiered on, "working...