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...media. Barbara Walters spoke on ABC's 20/20 about the "simple herb that could change the lives of millions of Americans who suffer from depression," and last week the New York Times ran two stories in as many days calling St. John's wort "a gentle remedy" and "a rival to Prozac." Pills and potions containing extracts of hypericum are selling briskly in supermarkets and health-store chains from New York to California. "We are stunned and pleased," says Karl-Heinz Siewert, managing director of Lichtwer Pharma, a Berlin-based company that markets hypericum under the brands Kira and Jarsin...
Perhaps an easy contest would have helped the Crimson before it headed off to the Division Tournament. Although it ended up spliting the weekend, Harvard lost two crucial matches to UMass and league rival Queens...
...starting with their unsuccessful attempts to rewrite their history. In 1985 the largely unknown Fayed brothers paid $689 million in cash for the House of Fraser retail chain (whose flagship was Harrods). Two years later, the Department of Trade and Industry--at the instigation of al Fayed's chief rival for control of Harrods--began investigating the family. Its report, published in 1990, concluded that the brothers did not hail, as they had claimed, from "an old Egyptian family" with a 100-year history of landownership and shipbuilding. "The image created...of their wealthy Egyptian ancestry was completely bogus...
Though Spacey says he is not as cryptic as his characters, his sense of stealth can rival both Soze's and Vincennes'. "He can be quite the bad boy," whispers a former colleague. "I'm very happy in my personal life" is all Spacey will say of his affairs. "I don't fault people for having an interest in me, nor do I try and stop that interest. I just don't participate in it." As the L.A. Confidential tabloid's motto goes, the real Kevin Spacey remains strictly off the record, on the q.t. and very hush-hush...
DULLES, Va.: He swallowed CompuServe, now the America Online CEO, Steve Case, is forging an alliance with the Dark Side. Just a week after the surprise announcement that AOL was taking over its top rival, TIME magazine reports Case is about to unveil a deal with Microsoft. The partnership include everything from licensing the online magazine Slate, which will appear on America Online this fall, to becoming part of Microsoft's "Active Desktop," which delivers information to Windows computers using new Microsoft Internet technology...