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With handsome features and a name that sounds like a Pokemon toy, Bryant has the rep of a star a prim mother or an innocent kid could love. "For teenage girls especially," says Peter Zollo of the polling firm Teen Research Unlimited, "Kobe is way up there. Where Allen Iverson's been the bad boy, Kobe has been the pretty...
...Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters, which won the top prize at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in Dublin in the '60s, when girls who had committed no crime more serious than naive sauciness, or who had been raped or impregnated, were sent to convent Borstals run by some very nasty nuns. "Here," one sister tells a girl, "you will be saved from eternal damnation." In fact, the place is a hell on Eire. The nuns, using their charges as unpaid laborers in a sweatshop laundry, flog the girls, make ribald fun of their naked bodies, allow...
...Deutsche still supports its restructuring plans, but it's likely the bank will dump its 1.6% stake altogether. True, it still has more than 35 billion left in its portfolio. But look for an eventual sale of Deutsche's 11.8% share of DaimlerChrysler and 3.2% of insurer Allianz. - By Peter Gumbel No Light At The End Eurotunnel, the Anglo-French Channel Tunnel operator, announced a 7% drop in revenue for the first half of this year, leaving it unable to meet interest payments on debts of almost 39 billion. Price cuts prompted by fierce competition nulled an increase...
...Economic Minister Wolfgang Clement in June. "Those who compare our calendar of public holidays with those of other countries may well start to ruminate." Not many have ruminated, and few are foregoing their getaways. "Holiday trips are a regular consumer good, which is sacrificed only under extreme conditions," says Peter Aderholt, secretary of the German Vacation and Travel Research Society. And apparently, today's uncertain economic and geopolitical conditions just aren't extreme enough. "Not taking a vacation would not be French," explains Diane Hebert-Stevens, a young Parisian ad saleswoman. While Europeans are vacationing with undiminished fervor, the trips...
...compromise. The U.S. survived a bloody civil war, and Americans still live together as one nation. In Nigeria we have had our share of hate and are slowly learning that we have no other place to go. The Middle East surely cannot be the exception that proves the rule. Peter Agbaminoja Lagos...