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...Hollywood culture rampant with cutthroat competition, it is hard to find an actor who is as well liked, respected and lauded as Lemmaon...
...personal capacity, Captain Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first woman tactical-jet pilot and the first female commander of an aviation squadron, suggests that the approach seems to have worked so far in her branch of the service. "When I came in 24 years ago, there was rampant sexual misconduct," she recalls. "Prosecutions were inconsistent and differed from command to command. But now the commanders are beginning to be more consistent and fair in enforcing the regulations, and even senior officers are being disciplined...
...glimpse of hell: highways were closed, city streets were blocked, and police corralled hundreds of fans. In the video, author WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 84, whose nihilistic novels have influenced U2 front man BONO, embodies a malign force that brings down civilization. Symbolizing the band's dim view of a rampant consumer culture (but they will happily sell you a CD!), frail Burroughs pushes a shopping cart out of the dead city. The band hopes to shoot two more videos during its PopMart tour in the U.S., says manager Paul McGuinness. Commuters, beware! The end is nigh...
MOSCOW: Railing at rampant military corruption, Boris Yeltsin primed himself for a political comeback, firing Defense Minister Igor Rodionov and the country's top military commander for failing to cut costs and slash Russia's overmanned armed forces. "I am not just unsatisfied. I am outraged," Yeltsin lectured the Defense Council in a nationally televised dressing down. Acknowledging that he has been somewhat "removed" from running the country recently (a state of affairs popularly linked to everything from alcoholism to senility), Yeltsin told the defense chiefs that he is now back in charge, a thinly veiled threat in a country...
...American appetite for it reached its apogee in the three decades from the mid-1870s to the early 1900s. This has since been christened, with every reason, the Gilded Age: the time of huge, unfettered industrial expansion; of unassailable and mutually interlocking trusts, combines and cartels; of rampant money acting under laws it wrote for itself. "Get rich," wrote Mark Twain sardonically, "dishonestly if we can, honestly if we must." From this culture of greed arose the primal names of American business: Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie and Frick (steel), Vanderbilt (railroads), the Goulds, Astors, Fisks and, towering over them...