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...difficult to distinguish between its own coffers and those of the state. Critics say elected KMT politicians flouted the law by selling government land to the party at bargain-basement prices, listing party-owned companies?implicitly understood to be backed by the government?on the stock market, and offering sweetheart deals in which the government gave KMT-controlled companies the opportunity to take part in national development projects...
...Sweet Home Alabama, a romantic comedy opening this week, Reese Witherspoon plays a Manhattan fashion designer who returns to her rural hometown to get a divorce from her high school sweetheart. She does not, however, fake her own death as a joke. She does not, while drunk in a honky-tonk, make a crude reference to oral sex. All that was cut because the studio was worried that the heroine of Sweet Home Alabama wouldn't seem sweet enough...
...Kyaw Ne Win, 23; and Zwe Ne Win, 21. Few tears were shed over the convicted. During his 26 years of dictatorship, Ne Win isolated Burma and led it to economic ruin. His offspring haven't raised the bar. Accustomed to privileges of power, including sweetheart business deals, Aye Zaw Win and the grandsons were cast by prosecutors as gangsters who plotted revolt when authorities threatened their luxurious lifestyles. As for Ne Win, 91, he's been under house arrest since the plot was discovered in March. There's doubt he will ever be tried. It's likely the death...
...trailer trash expat who reinvents herself as a New York fashionista. Her blue-blooded boyfriend (Patrick Dempsey) rents out Tiffany’s to propose to her, but there’s just one little bit of unfinished business: she’s still married to her high school sweetheart. When she goes home for a divorce, we all get to giggle about how funny people in the South are, and of course, learn the importance of Following Your Heart...
...going to Baghdad was to "wage peace," makes an unlikely anti war activist. He grew up in a military family and became an intelligence officer after college, where he studied Soviet history. Even early in his career, Ritter courted controversy. In 1991, after his first marriage - to his college sweetheart - ended, he married a Russian woman he met while posted in the former U.S.S.R. Despite initial suspicions that the translating service she worked for was being used by the Soviets to gather intelligence through "attempted sexual compromise," he satisfied himself that "this did not appear to be the case...