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...Readers who like to take sides will not find palatable choices in ?Kowloon Tong.? Theroux?s distaste for everyone involved in his tale registers clearly and often brilliantly. But it seems reasonable to hope that his vision of the near future is unduly dyspeptic, and that fiction will be stranger than truth...
...their last album, reached No. 2 on the charts. The band, which had recently finished touring, hadn't taken a summer off from one another since 1988. "I heard they were having heavy arguments and stuff at their [last] show, but I didn't believe it," Joey Ramone, no stranger to band-member infighting, told online service Addicted to Noise. "I thought they'd have to be nuts to break up now." Or just tired of all the angst...
...these would-be felons can just wait a few minutes for a colleague to let them in, and that the lack of universal access means propped doors across campus. If Harvard students had universal access to all houses and dorms, we would think twice before letting a waiting stranger into a house or dorm...
...more than an X-Files-meets-Revelation stew, however. The group plainly tailored its message in an attempt to be palatable to the broadest group of people possible. "Our dilemma was multifaceted: How do we present the information in a credible fashion, when to most, our Truth is definitely stranger than any fiction?" one Website posting wondered. "How do we avoid being seen as religious, in order not to 'turn off' those who rightfully despise the hypocrisy of what religions have become? At the same time, how do we acknowledge our past associations with this civilization which are primarily recorded...
Brigitte Bardot, no stranger to on-screen nudity, owes her family a lot. Literally. In her 1996 biography Initiales B.B., she lambastes ex-husband Jacques Charrier as a "gigolo" and says that while pregnant, she regarded son Nicolas as "a tumor." Last week a French court granted the maligned duo $43,000 but refused to order the pages excised...