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...have got the message. "We know the harbor is our greatest asset," he stresses. But Suen says that somehow or other, a new highway has to be built. "The overriding need is the road," he says, while pledging that most of the land above it will be used for parks and promenades. Activists, however, have heard such claims before. Chu asks, "Who can trust the government?" and notes that the planned West Kowloon cultural district, will, if completed, offer millions of square meters of commercial and residential space?but it was zoned as a park when the land was first...
...Iraq because someone blundered, yet no heads have rolled as a result of the White House's use of suspect or flawed information to instigate an unnecessary war. Until blame is placed on actual operatives, clerks, bureaucrats and elected officials, the commission's report means nothing. Holmes Brannon Woodland Park, Colorado, U.S. Gaining by Losing Your numbers column said that John Antioco, CEO of the Blockbuster video - rental chain [April 11], received total compensation of $51.6 million last year as the company lost $1.25 billion and its stock fell 47%. Would it follow that if Blockbuster had lost $5 billion...
...South Park (Comedy Central, Wednesdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) It's hard to say that a cartoon that has featured talking fecal matter has "matured." But South Park has, after nearly eight years, grown into TV's sharpest topical satire. In a recent episode, a character becomes hooked on the Sony PSP, gets in an accident and hovers between life and death, only to find that the PSP was created by God as a weapon against Satan. Any cartoon that can successfully lampoon the right-to-die issue, an overhyped gadget and our apocalyptic obsessions at once is, like that...
HOLMES BRANNON -- Woodland Park, Colo...
...This time, despite magazine reports of his recent engagement to Alias star JENNIFER GARNER, 33, BEN AFFLECK, 32, is just keeping mum. And so are their spokesfolks. The photogenic pair, who met on the set of Daredevil in 2002 and confirmed their rumored romance with some canoodling in Fenway Park at last year's World Series, have carried out a much quieter courtship than Affleck's former dalliances with Jennifer Lopez (now married to a musician) and Gwyneth Paltrow (now married to a musician). After nine months of dating, Affleck and Garner are quietly telling friends they plan to marry...