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There's nothing at all wrong with Connie Sumner's life. She's a doting mother with a loving husband and a lovely home in a leafy New York City suburb. Then one day she goes to Manhattan and quite by chance meets a sexy young Frenchman who deals in rare books. Steamy sex, guilt, retribution and manslaughter ensue. The movie: Unfaithful. The director: Adrian Lyne. Like his previous forays into adultery--Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal--this one is designed to provoke debate. Since the movie's opening on May 10, some critics have called it an exploitative morality...
...whose self-perception veered comically from reality. Despite declaring physical prowess on a par with Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 1.64 meters tall he had to stand on a box to perform pull-ups. He spoke in a stammer unvanquished by regular practice before a mirror. Raised in a farm-dotted suburb of Fukuoka by a truck-driver dad and homemaker mom, he attended the vocational Fukuoka Manufacturing High School so sporadically that he flunked the 10th grade...
...suburb outside the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif last week, Dostum was in campaign mode. Next month the country will hold its long-awaited loya jirga, or grand assembly, which will choose a transitional government. Dostum relaunched his old political party, the National Islamic Movement. Known simply as Jombesh, the group has a platform that rests on secular democracy (despite its name) and respect for minority rights, which translates to a federalist agenda. Addressing a congress of 2,000 party functionaries, Dostum hit out at "extremism" and "fundamentalism." Read: the Islamic politics of Jamiat...
Cuban has usually managed to get to the economics ever since his boyhood in Mount Lebanon, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb, where his father was a car upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National...
...race begins at noon in the Boston suburb of Hopkington and ends in downtown Boston...