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...opening night of the 54th Cannes Film Festival, can-can dancers kicked up a storm of publicity for Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge. Two evenings later, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Michelle Yeoh hosted a drinking contest, and after downing a dozen or more shots of heady Chinese liquor, the lithe lady was clearly the winner. The next night, a galaxy of Hong Kong stars, including Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Jet Li, flashed their smiles at the most congested soirEe in recent memory. When Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai sat for a Q&A about his career...
Lovisa and Arianne were already pushing their bodies to the limit at Blodgett, swimming with the guys and ready to take the league by storm...
...warned that a supercyclone was brewing in the Bay of Bengal three days before it hit. Giridhar Gamang, Chief Minister of Orissa, took unusual precautionary measures. According to Banerjee, he called in three powerful astrologers and kept a personal vigil as they appealed to the gods to deflect the storm. As frenzied winds snapped telecommunications and power lines, the pundits assured their boss he had little to fear. One said Gamang's stars would protect the state. Another predicted the cyclone would miraculously split into two, dodging Orissa. The third assured him that the cyclone would fly over Orissa, leaving...
...that companies are laying off," Carp told analysts. Kodak is adding to the pile too. As part of its streamlining, the company will cut 3,000 or so jobs from an already depleted workforce. As Carp put it, "I think we're a bit in the eye of a storm...
...Commonly known as Short Message Service (SMS), text messaging has taken European youth culture by storm. With each message priced at about 14 cents a pop, the practice has surpassed e-mail in popularity among the young and turned text-messaging handbooks, like WAN2TLK, into paperback best sellers...