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...Drawn to the camera and the microphone like a moth to a flame,” is the description given Dershowitz by The Washington Post’s Jonathan Yardley. This was in December, as Dershowitz plunged into the presidential election scandal representing voters in Palm Beach County, Florida—before he became involved in the Al-Megrahi case...
...exhibits, political opponents and anyone else who disagreed with him, including his estranged wife Donna Hanover? Giuliani took McCain's advice to heart - until last Tuesday's primary, when he got 15% of the vote, all from write-in ballots, which are more trouble to fill out than Palm Beach butterflies. On Wednesday, Giuliani summoned the three leading mayoral candidates to his makeshift office at the emergency operations center at Pier 92. There, surrounded by talismans - a picture of Churchill walking through London during the Blitz, a dust-caked mask from his near death experience in the shadow...
...America by Esquire, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, USA Today and Wine Spectator. He's earned the title the hard way, by, as he says, "getting the best ingredients and not screwing it up." He spends much of his time developing relationships with micropurveyors--a commercial pilot who grows hearts of palm, a scholar who Fed-Exes her Maine lobsters to him. Then he focuses on the details: squeezing the moisture out of fish skin; steeping a lobster so he can cook it without the shell; straining everything over and over. "You look at a fish and you realize it was alive...
Indeed, after two years of embarrassing delays and technical glitches, Bluetooth consumer products are finally trickling out--mainly as cell phone, computer and PDA attachments made by companies such as 3Com, Palm, Compaq and Motorola. Simon Ellis, chairman of marketing for Bluetooth SIG, says 9 million Bluetooth chipsets will be shipped this year. But most Bluetooth-enabled consumer hardware will be out next year. Meanwhile, Bluetooth is earning its stripes in industrial applications. UPS, for instance, announced a $100 million plan last month to use Bluetooth in ring scanners for package sorters and Wi-Fi in its world-wide mobile...
...released the acclaimed Homogenic, and became so famous that she was the victim of fan attacks and stalkers. Björk then starred in last year’s Dancer in the Dark, directed by Lars von Trier, for which she was awarded Best Actress while the film won Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film festival, though she has since sworn never to make a film again...