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...clean. The newly burnished male host?sans gold teeth and creepy leer?is Japan's latest celebrity. Hosts are appearing on TV talk shows and publishing memoirs, how-to guides and even business books. A high-profile TV movie about a host club aired last month, starring a dream roster of the country's hottest male actors. There are hundreds of such clubs in areas like Tokyo's Kabuki-cho and they vie for business via cell phones and the Internet, which has search sites that rank the city's top hosts by looks and charm quotient. For the customers...
When George W. Bush first announced his Cabinet nominees, a great outcry arose from America's abortion rights lobby. But despite the presence of two resolutely pro-life candidates (John Ashcroft and Tommy Thompson) on the presidential roster, pro-choice groups have chosen to concentrate their efforts almost exclusively on defeating Ashcroft...
Yale, however, had a young team which included seven freshmen and five sophomores on the roster. Its inexperience under pressure let Harvard slowly back into the game in each half. After falling behind 23-12 in the first half, the Crimson used an 8-0 run and good shooting by Harvey, who finished with 19 points, to pull ahead 36-34 at the half. In the last 8:10 of the half, Yale had only one field goal, a Leanza three-pointer, while the rest of the Eli points came from the charity stripe...
Heading into this weekend's contests, the Crimson has a lot to look forward to. For the first time all season, Harvard should suit a full lineup. It is expected that Stonehouse, Morrell and Capouch should return to the roster, and Smith has already secured a spot on the now-deep defensive rotation...
...cable network. That would disadvantage other Internet service providers, all of whom are looking to cable as the most versatile broadband delivery alternative. Companies like Disney complained that in addition to limiting open access, the new company might restrict interactive TV (ITV) services over TW cable. Then a roster of instant-messaging companies charged that AOL was preventing any competitor's messages from penetrating AOL's proprietary IM architecture. By the fall, when AOL Time Warner had initially estimated they would close the deal, "the FTC was hitting us with a new issue every week," says an insider...