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Downey has reason to be in good spirits. Not only has he just been sprung from the slammer, he also has a new movie opening this week, Two Girls and a Guy, that's generating strong buzz for his role as a duplicitous lothario confronted by the two women he's been dating simultaneously (see review). And he has two more films coming out this year: In Dreams, in which he plays a psycho telepathically stalking Annette Bening, and Friends and Lovers, an indie comedy-drama that finds him playing a ski instructor. Though he must return each night...
...process of consolidation, as the banks love to point out, creates cost saving. But several studies show that, if anything, the banks have pocketed whatever value they've sprung loose. And new and higher fees have been introduced as banks merge and branches close. Noninterest service fees--for bounced checks, certified checks, etc.--now account for a third of industry profits, totaling $18.5 billion. Last year a report by the U.S. Public Interest Group (USPIRG) found that consumers paid 15% more to maintain a regular checking account at a big bank than at a small bank. Similar results were found...
Over the past several years, ethnic student groups have become more involved in community service and smaller community service groups like Harvard-Radcliffe Little People have sprung up, while PBHA's 1700 student membership has remained constant...
WASHINGTON: Ken Starr?s investigation has sprung another leak, and this time it?s a big one. Gushing out of the independent counsel?s office comes the news -- reported first in the Washington Post -- that large chunks of Starr?s report to the House are already written. Which makes for possible impeachment proceedings as early...
...instances pain is still delivered the old-fashioned way, from cattle prods or wires connected to a car battery. But now human-rights workers are running across more cases in which high-tech devices based on American technology are used. Over the past decade, more than 100 companies have sprung up around the world selling small, handheld shock weapons, costing $200 or less, designed for police use. Tens of thousands of cheaper devices, many advertised as giving blasts of 50,000 volts or more, have also been sold directly to consumers...