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...Department into filing charges against fired nuclear-weapons expert Wen Ho Lee, officials at the Department of Energy are about to declassify some highly secret documents about the nature of Lee's work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. According to sources familiar with the case, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has told aides that excessive secrecy should not stand in the way of charging Lee for downloading to an unsecure computer the so-called legacy codes that describe the performance of the U.S. nuclear arsenal...
...might have a better chance of getting back into Eden than you do of getting an appointment for next week. There's a two-month wait for a signature rubdown at Houston's tony Brea spa. Eliza Petrescu, Avon's eyebrow-waxing czarina, whose customers include celebrities like Natasha Richardson, says her next open 10-min. appointment is not until March 2000. Ann Marie Gardner, beauty director and spa reviewer for the fashionista bible W, gripes, "I had my whole office calling. We couldn't get in anywhere on three days' notice, not even little no-name places...
...also embarrass any actor onscreen with him who isn't as dexterous or willing to get their hands dirty. Norton, thank God, will probably never be in a movie like You've Got Mail because his intensity would just liquify all the fluff. He's like the Miranda Richardson of American cinema--too good for 99 percent of it, so we just wait patiently until he finds a role he can sink his teeth into...
...vote it couldn't win, the White House played for time. On Sunday the troops went out to the talk shows to make the case for postponing even longer. "What we have now is the need to explain it to the Senate, to the Congress," Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said on Fox, which seems a little odd considering the administration has already had three years to make its case...
Role-playing has a long history in pop music. In the 1950s, a Beaumont, Texas, deejay named J.P. Richardson stepped into his on-air radio persona, the Big Bopper, and scored a hit single, Chantilly Lace. And in the 1970s, David Bowie took on the role of Ziggy Stardust, an otherworldly rock-'n'-roller. Brooks makes it clear he's just playing a role, not living it or attempting some full Andy Kaufmanesque submersion. He may have recorded a rock CD, but he makes no claims that he's a rocker. "I'm a country artist," he says, "and very...