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...stepping aside for younger model CAROLYN MURPHY, 28, as the star for cosmetics giant Estee Lauder must have been a bit unsettling, no? "I couldn't be happier, and remain besotted with, and grateful to, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder, my surrogate American parents!" Hurley gushed. She'll remain a spokeswoman for Lauder fragrances and will try to take more time for acting. (She's got four films in the can, so one wonders how much more time she'll need.) As for Murphy, who beat out Gwyneth Paltrow for the job, this marks her return to modeling. A cover girl...
...Pressure has come from the grass roots. "With this second intifadeh, there was a crisis of conscience in the Jewish community in France," says Claudine Barouhiel, a spokeswoman for Consistoire, a 200-year-old organization that represents religious French Jewish groups. Jean Kahn, Consistoire's director, is more blunt. "A lot of people in France now believe that Arafat has just one sole objective: the destruction of Israel." That sentiment has helped transform France's Jewish community into what Barouhiel calls a "much more active and militant, much more politically organized force." The shift has been evident both...
...NORTH CAROLINA: Military bases prepared for possible change in status. At Raleigh-Durham International Airport, spokeswoman Mirinda Kossoff said a strategy meeting was planned with the Federal Aviation Administration...
Last year pharmaceutical manufacturers spent $2.5 billion marketing drugs of all kinds to consumers. A spokeswoman for the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers Association says such ads "empower" patients by informing them of treatment options. But, as doctors will tell you, they are a double-edged sword because they drive up demand for drugs. And that's particularly dicey in the case of drugs like those used for ADHD, which the DEA puts in the same category with morphine, cocaine, Demerol and Oxycontin...
...goal, says spokeswoman Lisa Erk, "is systemic social change." This means forming a partnership between colleges and their communties to get bars off campus, halt two-for-one drink specials and increase alcohol-free social options. Students, of course, will complain (at Wisconsin the chancellor is sometimes called the "booze cop"). And so might townspeople: why can?t a responsible drinker enjoy a beer or two at the football game, or get a discount for stopping by at happy hour? That's what happens when you craft policy to deal with the worst offenders. The innocents have to sacrifice...