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...Mindful of allied concerns, the traditionally plain-spoken President Bush on Monday displayed some of the semantic gymnastics more familiar from his predecessor by suggesting that "regime change" could simply mean compliance with UN demands - if Saddam ended his wicked ways, his regime would have changed, right? That followed comments on Sunday by Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to the effect that the U.S. priority was simply getting rid of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction...
...meantime, my father and I did learn spoken English relatively well—so much so that within six years of our respective arrival (my father came in 1944, while my mother and I came in 1946), we had become American citizens. My mother, much to her regret, remained Portuguese. She could never pass the standard U.S. Naturalization exam, an exercise which most native-born Americans would be equally unable to pass...
...PATRICIA HEATON, who happily cops to her own touch-ups. Heaton, the co-star of Everybody Loves Raymond, joked to David Letterman about an actress currently on the cover of a magazine who said she was afraid of Botox, a comment Heaton said amused her because she had spoken to that actress's plastic surgeon. As it happens, Pfeiffer is on the cover of Harper's Bazaar and says she is afraid of Botox. After Pfeiffer reiterated that she is a natural woman, Heaton issued an apology, saying her comments were completely unfounded and Pfeiffer had "graciously accepted her apology...
When Hill goes for diva moments, the songs collapse beneath her. Beautiful has spoken-word verses that recall late-night Cinemax soft-core and the chimerical cliches of Bonnie Tyler. "I love the way you hold me with your eyes/Hold me so tight that I can't move/It's like everything I've ever known is a lie, and you're the simple truth." Beautiful ends with one of those cheap "Take it up a notch!" key changes, as does Unsaveable, the song that follows. Hill's longtime producers, Byron Gallimore and Dann Huff, have done her no great favors...
...carrier $1.4 million per year for it. AMP also billed Sabena for 9,000 "irregularity kits" with toiletries for stranded passengers at a cost of $5.50 apiece - enough for 11 years - and $250,000 for 40,000 unnecessary telephone cards. For the most part, the Swiss haven't spoken in their own defense, and the Belgians can't force them. (Suits have been filed against Swissair and some of its top executives by several of the Swiss carrier's European partners and others, and a Swiss magistrate is separately conducting a criminal inquiry). But former CEO Reutlinger has testified, telling...