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...Angeles Lakers guard had been charged with raping the hotel clerk, then 19, who visited his room while he was in Colorado last year. He apologized in a statement, saying: "Although I believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not." A civil suit against Bryant is still pending. INDICTED. BILL CAMPBELL, 51, former Atlanta mayor; on charges of racketeering, bribery and wire fraud; in Atlanta. Campbell, who has denied the charges, is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions, cash and other gifts in exchange for city contracts during...
...irrigation and became self-sufficient in food grains. But then both the state and central governments neglected irrigation and construction of reservoirs, allowing 50% of river-water resources to go to waste in the sea. India's politicians have a habit of ignoring expert advice if it does not suit their selfish interests. In view of the diminishing rainfall, India needs to construct more reservoirs and transfer surplus water from one area to another to increase production of food and hydroelectric power. The states should learn to share available water and help improve the economic condition of India's rural...
...boots, slacks and a linen shirt, naming the native grasses, spotting the herons--admiring the butterflies, for heaven's sake. This is to be a day of image softening, and another magazine's crew is waiting to do a family photo shoot. Bush has remade this Texas landscape to suit him: put in a lake and stocked it, planted the oaks and laid out the house so the winds would sweep through it. That's the way of his world: something to be shaped, by work and will. Whatever his handlers say, the softening will have to wait because right...
...like darn good advice to Chicagoans. Illinois is suing the socially conscious jam band and one of its drivers for allegedly discharging "80 to 100 gallons of liquid human waste" from its tour bus onto a boat full of sightseers on the Chicago River. According to the $70,000 suit, the driver violated state environmental laws and doused dozens of tourists, causing some to be hospitalized. "We feel awful for the people who were on the boat," says the band in a statement. "We have worked closely with Chicago law-enforcement officials and are continuing to work...
Take the latest of his films, Intimate Strangers. When we first meet Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire), she is all earth tones and hesitations. William (Fabrice Luchini), her interlocutor, is all buttoned up--suit, tie, suspiciously neat desk. Anna tells a story of a marriage that has become sexless and hostile. We learn that William has inherited his business (and his home office) from his father; he has never lived outside these confines. We know from dozens of other movies that each of these characters is destined to bloom. What we can't guess is how the narrative is going to encourage...