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...Losers PIN CHAKKAPHAK U.K. court approves Thai financier's extradition. That whole Asian financial crisis? His fault BANGARU LAXMAN Still time for med school. Prez of India's ruling party caught on camera accepting bribes MIR Russian space station crashing below the 2000 level?no, wait, that's the NASDAQ Verbatim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...would be easy, then, simply to pin the decline on the madness of speculators. "The people pulling out of the market in the U.S. are the same ones pulling out of the French market," argues economist Marc Touati, chief economist at Natexis Banques Populaires in Paris. "Don't forget that about 70% of funds invested in the Paris market come from abroad, notably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sympathy Pains | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...filled with memorabilia from the state. University of Nebraska pennants and posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Sub Fans, 1,500 Miles From the Nearest Ocean | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Michael Zhang is out there to oblige women like Zhu. He's dressed for success in a sleek, pin-striped suit and a passable faux Rolex. Girls say they like his strong jaw and jutting cheekbones. Married women prefer his listening skills and languorous back rubs. For an all-night chat session with these lonely wives, Zhang expects only a good dinner and a little farewell gift, like a leather cell-phone holder or monogrammed gold lighter. But if they want something more, he expects at least $120 in cash. "We never talk about price beforehand," he says. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Works Hard for the Money | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's frank and ground-breaking Happy Together was among the first to transcend the sexually conventional in 1997. He undressed every girl's bedroom pin-ups, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and started the first few minutes of his movie with a scene showing exactly what men do to each other in bed. At one stroke, amid much audience perturbation, he unmoored the taboos and let them float flamboyantly close to the mainstream. Asian audiences were intoxicated and its filmmakers' impulses raged against society's machinery, creating a new cinematic landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Movies | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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