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...publish a small, photocopied newspaper called Film Times, sell subscriptions to the major studios for $50,000 a year and fill the page with lots of quotes from me and people with names like Roger Ebert and Richard Corliss. Unfortunately, when I ran my plan by Roger Ebert, the owner of a sign company in Lewisville, N.C., he declined. "I wouldn't have time to fool with that right now," he said. When I asked if I could use that quote, he said, "Yes," and hung up. Thus my first issue contains this review for Evolution: YES! YES! YES! - ROGER...
...level economic playing field, or, in some cases, just to be cut in on the corruption. Outsiders want to hold onto their power, squash the press and keep their business monopolies. The lawlessness of the intifadeh has made the squabbles more coldly violent. In February, Abu Amr, the owner of the Beach Hotel in Gaza City, invited Hisham Mikki, the head of the official Palestinian television station, to sit with him in his empty restaurant, smoking a water pipe and looking out over the Mediterranean. Mikki came back from exile with Arafat and amassed a fortune from corrupt deals...
...temperature rises as steamy claims of other broken rules are revealed in the racketeering trial that is riveting this city with tales of prostitution, fraud, the Mafia, and the off-the-court lives of several high-profile NBA stars. At the center of the trial is Gold Club owner Steven Kaplan, who has been indicted along with 16 others, including one former and one active Atlanta police officer and two dancers named "Diva" and "Frederique." Each is charged with enriching a criminal enterprise run by Kaplan. He, in turn, according to prosecutors, paid the Mafia's Gambino family for protection...
...intensive. Every hotel needs cleaning staff and someone to mind the beach umbrellas. And those jobs don't require much education. Moreover, tourism offers a cheap crash course in entrepreneurship. The farmer with a few spare rooms can rent them out without committing vast sums of capital. The cafe owner can alter his menu to attract new customers, which is why you can now get a Full English Breakfast anywhere in the world (though this may not be a good thing). The local mechanic can rent out a few scooters and, if that goes well, seek a franchise from Avis...
...Samui's least-developed beach, Ao Thong, the Samui Dharma Healing Center offers a personalized, no-frills holistic fast. For $300 a week, American owner Hillary Hitt and husband Greg give one-on-one and group counseling sessions as well as classes on nutrition, meditation and yoga to a maximum of 18 participants. "Cleansing is a journey, a deep spiritual experience. You need a teacher and you need support," says Hitt. A lot of it, in fact. In the first few days of fasting, guests can expect "nausea, dizziness, headaches, exhaustion, heaviness, bloating and moods of anger, depression, fear, sadness...