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...played an alcoholic on the road to recovery in the movie Bounce. Maybe it wasn't all acting? Last week square-jawed Pearl Harbor star BEN AFFLECK revealed he had entered rehab for an alcohol problem. Said publicist David Pollick: "Ben is a self-aware and smart man who has decided that a fuller life awaits him without alcohol. He has chosen to seek out professional assistance and is committed to traveling a healthier road with the support of his family, friends and fans." And food, folks and fun, along with additional alliterative assurances at the Malibu drying-out center...
...across the street, in front of a billboard for the movie Pearl Harbor, is another group of Okinawans from Ryukyu University. The students wave banners and shout hoarsely into bullhorns: "We oppose American bases on Okinawa! We oppose President Bush! We oppose violence to women! We will not rest till the bases...
...Generally, one of two things need to happen for the military to submit to an ambitious restructuring: either it loses or otherwise screws up a war, or a president makes it his No. 1 priority. It?s been a while since Pearl Harbor, or even the failed Iran hostage-rescue attempt in 1980, and that left Bush. And his once-stated dream of a refashioned military quickly took a back seat - both fiscally and in terms of political capital - to tax cuts, education, health care, Social Security privatization and just about everything else...
...helps, of course, that on the eastern side of the Pearl River, abortion is treated as a human right, rather than a metaphysical question. And no one cares who you are or why you're there. "Girls and women of all ages come in here everyday for treatment," says the gynecologist at Guangzhou Area People's Hospital. "I don't ask for reasons or hometowns...
...LAURA BUSH, U.S. First Lady Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by PETER J. CONN "I always read every night for 30 or 40 minutes at least. Sometimes [the President] asks me to turn out the light, and sometimes I have to ask him. It depends on who's sleepiest...