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...their shares. Already, according to Yoichi Kato, head of the Bangkok office of the Japan External Trade Organization, several Japanese firms have told him that they may postpone investment in Thailand. "If you want to play in the global game, you can't just play by Thai rules," says Peter van Haren, president of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Bangkok. "Other Asian nations are willing to play by international rules, and they could...
...With reporting by Tim Kindseth, Ling Woo Liu and Peter Ritter / Hong Kong
...lifted from a soap opera script: fined for giving a bookmaker information about "weather conditions"; suspended for using a banned drug that can mask steroid use; divorced after a series of lurid extramarital affairs. Little wonder that Warne's early teammates nicknamed him Hollywood. He is, noted cricket writer Peter Roebuck recently, "an unusual blend of immaturity and insight...
...even before a decision is made to expand or shrink the U.S. military presence in Iraq, Congress may face the politically touchy question this year of whether to increase the involuntary call-up of National Guard or Army Reserve troops for Iraq duty. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker has warned that his active force will break down if it isn't replenished with more Guard and Reserve soldiers. But members of Congress know that these part-time warriors, whose ranks have also been strained by Iraq deployments, are political powerful constituencies in their congressional districts...
...therefore a pleasure to say something nice about Venus, in which lanky, scrawny, Peter O'Toole, playing an aging actor named Maurice, just plain refuses to acknowledge the fact that he's not feeling so hot. He keeps working such modest jobs as come his way, keeps ragging on his pal Ian (Leslie Phillips), who is less sickly, but more prone to aches, pains and complaints, and mostly undertakes the education - actually we'd better make that the civilization - of the eponymous Venus (Jodie Whittaker, a young actress making an utterly fearless debut). She's Ian's grandniece, up from...