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Winona Ryder will be giving no jailhouse interviews. At her sentencing last week for shoplifting last December at the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, Calif., Ryder avoided jail time and instead was given three years' probation and ordered to perform 480 hours of community service and pay more than $10,000 in fines. When stopped by security guards in the store, Ryder was also found to have a collection of prescription drugs in her bag that would have made Elvis proud, including Percodan, Valium and Endocet. Her lawyer said the medications were for pain management. The judge chastised...
...Harvard men’s team, also facing several injuries, did not perform as well as it did last weekend. But the Crimson did post some strong showings with numerous finishers in the second to fourth place slots...
Sometimes surgery is unavoidable. Each year doctors in the U.S. perform 270,000 knee replacements and 170,000 hip replacements. So many patients have benefited that a lot of people, like Mike Ditka, 63, the Chicago Bears' Hall of Fame tight end, have had both hips replaced. To keep his new joints in good condition, Ditka works out daily. "As you get older," he says, "whatever the complications are, they're going to become magnified a hundred times if you don't exercise...
...though Twain, who is Canadian and thus constitutionally averse to star trips, never quite means what she says. On a brisk October night, with the bleat of Paris traffic in her ears, the Twain fiat is this: she is going to stop singing in public. "I never burned to perform, and I don't care if I ever perform again," she says. "I have no need to do that...
...Walker, a sales manager at the West Bromwich Building Society in England's West Midlands, which recently began to offer Shari'a-compliant mortgages. And there are other obstacles. Because the universe of Shari'a-compliant stocks is limited, funds based on this type of investing tend to under-perform the market - an investor turnoff. Scandal has also taken its toll - in 2000, 17 former managers of the Dubai Islamic Bank were convicted of embezzling millions of dollars of investors' money. "Islamic banking is still a virgin territory," notes Rumman Faruqi, ceo of the London-based Institute of Islamic Banking...