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...JENNIFER LOPEZ'S widely anticipated Santa Barbara, Calif., nuptials, from the barbecue rehearsal dinner to the hired decoy brides. And so the celebrity spectacle, a.k.a. Bennifer, felt compelled to issue a statement calling off the wedding. Because of "excessive media attention," it said, "we began to feel that the spirit of what should have been the happiest day of our lives would be compromised." Bennifer watchers speculated that the four-sentence press release was 1) a ploy to throw off the paparazzi while the pair elopes, 2) a sign of Affleck's cold feet or 3) legit. It may also...
...first to inject certain strange particles into the mainstream. He made pictures that proposed domination as an excellent metaphor for human affairs, or same-sex involvements as a supremely interesting annex to the general run of things. When Madonna kisses Britney Spears at the MTV Video Music Awards, his spirit hovers...
...view of the Ho Chi Minh Trail: they've lived on it for more than 30 years. Luc spent three of them in backbreaking labor, carrying ammunition and rice to North Vietnamese troops as American bombs rained down. "It was a hard job," says Luc, now 70. "But the spirit of victory inspired...
...horse-trading session" is the prediction of one British official. It will help no one if it gets too messy. The point of the exercise, after all, isn't just to streamline the treaties and clarify the roles of various E.U. institutions. It is also meant to breathe a spirit of shared purpose into the project of European integration. Voters will only feel further alienated from the E.U. if the intergovernmental talks drift too far off into the arcane and remote. As the Swedes showed last week, many Europeans aren't disposed to take the recommendations of their governments...
...aren't singing that tune. Last month, Kim Clijsters became Belgium's first-ever World No. 1, and Justine Henin-Hardenne won its first Grand Slam titles at the French and U.S. Opens. But their on-court success has been overshadowed by a rivalry that smells nothing like team spirit. The rocky relations between Clijsters, 20, and Henin-Hardenne, 21, roughly parallel the dividing lines in Belgian society. Clijsters, from the Flemish-speaking north, and Henin-Hardenne, from the French-speaking south, have long been cordial, never close. As they've risen to the top of the tennis world, relations...