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...Motley Crue's Vince Neil and Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris--E! network's Star Dates sends where-are-they-now stars on blind dates with noncelebs, many of whom, natch, have show-biz aspirations of their own. ABC's reality game show Celebrity Mole Hawaii casts seven quasi-stars, including Spin City's Michael Boatman, Suddenly Susan's Kathy Griffin and Erik von Detten (who co-starred in ABC's doomed Dinotopia for about five seconds) to complete adventure challenges hampered by one player who is a secret "mole" working to sabotage them. Fox has degraded such thought...
...shake off—it is, after all, wholly accurate. If he tries to sidestep, he will neither satisfy scornful conservatives of his centrism nor convince the shrinking liberal voting base that he’s anything more than another Al Gore or Sen. Joe Lieberman—a quasi-left-winger, a moderate Republican in threadbare Democrat’s clothing...
...ought to make Colombia the 51st state so they could curb the drug trade, even though that would be in our interest," says Elmar Brok, a German Christian Democrat who chairs the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament. "The U.S. has to understand that the E.U. is a quasi-state entity, with standards and rules and, soon, a constitution. We're not some alliance or free trade area." Washington has been arguing for years that Turkey should be made a formal E.U. candidate. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, and particularly since war plans for Iraq took shape...
...That was the best time of my life,’” she says. “I want whenever I’m living to be the best time of my life.” Now that she’s quasi-grown-up, Lieskovsky hasn’t gotten any more mainstream in her career goals. “I want to be Angelina Jolie’s assistant in Cambodia,” she exclaims. “She’s doing all this amazing UN goodwill work. I would just love to hang...
...That's why a growing number of economists are declaring that it's time for a little creative destruction. "Stirring competition is the single-most-important strategy for driving productivity higher," says economics professor Shimada. "That means getting rid of government subsidies and tariffs for protected industries and dismantling quasi-governmental monopolies." But that is a lot easier said than done. For one thing, those protected industries have had plenty of time to develop powerful lobbying groups, which are now among the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's biggest contributors. Many Diet members, in fact, are known by which zoku (tribe...