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...calling it a bailout for big tobacco: "The tobacco industry has never demonstrated an ability to negotiate in good faith or live up to its promises,'' said association chief executive John Garrison. As the industry hastens to reach a settlement, pressure to curb and punish its practices continues to mount: on Wednesday, even as the FTC charged R.J. Reynolds with unfair advertising practices, charging that its Joe Camel campaign targets children, the state of Florida decided to dump $825 million worth of tobacco stocks invested in its retirement plan. In July, the first class-action suit against the industry...
Moses has been elected vice-president of the National Riffle Association (NRA), and his career move has significantly disrupted my peace of mind. You see, to me Charlton Heston has always been the white-bearded patriarch standing atop Mount Nebo at the end of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", bellowing sonorously, "proclaim liberty throughout the land!" to Yvonne De Carlo and John Derek. In fact, I've had to endure feeling slightly blasphemous and sacrilegious for most of my life during Passover seders, as Charlton Heston has been the only image my mind has been able to conjure...
...week, but then Robert Halmi Sr., 73, isn't the kind of guy who keeps busy churning out projects with names like Abduction of Innocence: A Moment of Truth Movie. While overseeing the production of an upcoming ABC movie on the explorers Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone near Mount Kenya recently, Halmi hired a group of Masai tribesmen as extras. Just as the scene in which they were to participate had begun shooting, a busload of American tourists stopped to ogle and photograph the tribesmen, angering the actors-for-a-day and delaying production. Rather than deploy a minion...
...Independent was too busy stealing stories to mount a challenge...
Last year, at about 1 p.m. on the 10th of May, Jon Krakauer, on assignment for Outside magazine, plodded toward the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest. Sucking a lean mixture of bottled oxygen and air that only partly made up for the dire thinness of the atmosphere, he managed a single step to three or four heaving breaths. To his oxygen-starved brain, the world beyond his rubber mask, he writes, "was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. I felt drugged...