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...Lady, director Jane Campion's version of the Henry James novel, provides steeply raked, hugely self-conscious angles on Isabel, who is often glimpsed in a murky bluish light. It's as if Campion were determined not to shoot a single frame that might be confused with a Merchant-Ivory production...
...number of commodities (for instance, cement), channeling part of the revenue to the P.A. and pocketing the rest. Petty forms of corruption are common--and just as galling. Palestinian police are notorious for confiscating goods--such as stolen items or expired food products--and then reselling them to another merchant, or even back to the original offender...
That's music to CyberCash, whose revenue will come from usage fees, just like those of credit-card issuers. "On a 25[cents] transaction," says Gilbert, "we'll charge the bank 6[cents], and they'll charge the merchant 8[cents]." As transaction sizes go up, they'll get a much smaller percentage; still, over millions of users, CyberCoin profits could add up to big bucks...
...Children's Safety Project at New York City's Greenwich House, which O'Donnell co-gaveled with KEVIN SPACEY, the talk-show host's bears sold for $5,800, more than 20 times what the model's fetched. (Rosie threw in a guest spot on her show.) Singer Natalie Merchant's personally made bears garnered less than Muhammad Ali's or Al Pacino's. The top ursine, from Sesame Street, got snapped...
...Iraqis I see in Baghdad this week bear little resemblance to those I met before the 1991 Gulf War. The same faces, yes; the same names: Sadoun, Ala, Sa'ad, Mahoud, middle-class government officials, merchants, staffers at international companies. Right after the Gulf War, these were the people the U.S. hoped, maybe expected, would overthrow Saddam Hussein. But the political discontent I saw then seems to have dissipated. Now, after enduring rigorous economic sanctions that have stripped away their wealth, the educated merchant class has settled into numb resignation. The dinar has been devalued to one five-hundredth...