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...former cruise-ship crooner will soon have plenty of chances to perform on the international stage. After opening at next month's nato summit in Brussels, he will warm up at the E.U summit in Göteborg, then step into the spotlight as host of July's G8 meeting in Genoa. Whatever happens, Il Cavaliere is unlikely to make as big a spectacle as he did when Italy hosted a U.N. conference on organized crime in Naples in 1994: with the world's most powerful leaders looking on, Berlusconi was served with papers putting him under formal investigation...
...media hasn't yet mentioned him by name. But Chen's anonymity in Beijing is a stark contrast to his globally more visible role brought on by recent American approval of a sophisticated arms-sales package to Taiwan and the deteriorating state of Sino-U.S. relations. Increasingly the spotlight is on Taiwan?and Chen. For the island's majority, the attention may be unwelcome. The place has been thriving in its political ambiguity. Is it China? Not China? Does it really matter anymore to the average Taiwanese...
...while Cruise's spotlight has brought her fame, her career has been dwarfed by their marriage. Her forays into commercial movies, such as Practical Magic, have usually fallen short. Kidman admits without bitterness that "most of my choices were based around somebody else's schedule." The big question: Is she a star or merely a jettisoned planet in search of a new solar system? The answer may be found in two summer movies. The Others, coming from Miramax's Dimension Films in August, could turn out to be the season's horror sleeper. But first comes a far more...
...pain at the pump has put Big Oil in the profiteering spotlight again, albeit with an Internet twist. At least one widely distributed chain e-mail encourages readers to boycott stations operated by ExxonMobil, the largest gasoline retailer in the U.S. Exxon's profits roared 44% higher in the first quarter, to $5 billion, on fattened profit margins. The 27 largest energy firms in the U.S. earned $14.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2000--more than double their profits in the same period a year earlier, reports the Energy Information Agency. Of course, there were no complaints while Exxon...
...while Cruise's spotlight has brought her fame, her career has been dwarfed by their marriage. Her forays into commercial movies, such as Practical Magic, have usually fallen short. Kidman admits without bitterness that "most of my choices were based around somebody else's schedule." The big question: Is she a star or merely a jettisoned planet in search of a new solar system? The answer may be found in two summer movies. The Others, coming from Miramax's Dimension Films in August, could turn out to be the season's horror sleeper. But first comes a far more...