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...DIED. KHOO TECK PUAT, 86, Singapore's richest man and the largest individual shareholder in Standard Chartered Bank; in Singapore. Khoo, who also owned a group of hotels that included Singapore's landmark Goodwood Park, was estimated by Forbes last year to be worth $2.6 billion. Khoo once described his share-buying strategy as: "When no one wants it, that's the time to buy a few million...
...current team at the University of New Mexico—where she became the first woman to score in Division I football. Playing with the Lobos, she has yet to experience a single incident similar to her treatment at Colorado, something that Hnida attributes to “the standard Coach [Rocky] Long sets…for behavior...
...does not help that a White House that has set the modern standard for message management has been sending up flares in recent days that illuminate for the most jittery Americans the fragility of their situation. First came the observation by Bush's top economist Gregory Mankiw that outsourcing jobs overseas is "probably a plus for the economy in the long run." That may be true in theory, but the statement was so impolitic that even such staunch Bush supporters as House Speaker Dennis Hastert were furious. "An economy suffers when jobs disappear," Hastert said. And so do politicians...
...Independence Day, this Franco Zeffirelli miniseries (6hr.26min. in the DVD version, of which the Passion section takes about an hour) is to Easter: definitive TV entertainment for a holiday, or holy day. Lusciously pictorial, elaborating on the Gospel narrative while tightroping above controversy, the film is the fullest standard text from which more extravagant versions like Pasolini's and Gibson's are encouraged to meander freely...
...premise, from screenwriter Ian Driscoll, is piquant: Jesus H. Christ joins forces with a priest to rid Ottawa of a vampire coven. He's an activist Savior ("If I'm not back in five minutes, call the Pope") who kicks beaucoup d'ass. He's closer to a standard Mel Gibson hero than to the hero of the new Mel Gibson movie. But the comedy is slack, the song lyrics feeble, the pace torpid. Note to cultists: A movie may be incompetently acted and amateurishly shot. That doesn't mean you have to like...