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Does a condemned man brush his teeth on the morning of his execution? You bet he does. And so it should be no surprise that Israeli and Palestinian officials continue to sit around a table and discuss a peace deal to while away the final hours of the Oslo peace process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Israelis and Palestinians Keep Going Through the Motions | 1/25/2001 | See Source »

...been on the fringe of Japan's colorful nightlife for decades, catering to aged sugar mamas and scrawny scroungers with hair gel and overlaundered black suits. Kiss those days sayonara. Japan's host clubs have gone mainstream?without getting overly squeaky clean. The newly burnished male host?sans gold teeth and creepy leer?is Japan's latest celebrity. Hosts are appearing on TV talk shows and publishing memoirs, how-to guides and even business books. A high-profile TV movie about a host club aired last month, starring a dream roster of the country's hottest male actors. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent Boys | 1/21/2001 | See Source »

...doorstep begging for jobs. Working as a male host still carries seedy connotations, but the recession has led them to seek out unusual career paths. Katsumasa Tanaka, 26, was a salaried worker at an auto-parts company in Osaka until earlier this year. The slender six-footer with Chiclet teeth came to Tokyo with dreams of singing and acting. After auditioning for a role in a movie about male hosts, he decided he could be one himself. Though top hosts can earn well into six figures, Tanaka is happy with $3,000 a month and an audition-friendly schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent Boys | 1/21/2001 | See Source »

...unintelligible protester shouted briefly before being carted off by Capitol police, and it looked like fireworks weren't too far off. P> They even threatened to explode once or twice as committee chairman Patrick Leahy, Democrat from Vermont, and ranking minority member Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, bared their teeth at each other over procedure and the reputation of their respective parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ashcroft Hearings Start With a Bang | 1/16/2001 | See Source »

...actually attract attention in New York City. It took some time to reconcile my inherently low-key Scandinavian temperament with the whole public-spectacle thing - the unself-conscious stares, the involuntary comments, the tourists scrambling for their cameras etc., etc. For the first few weeks I just gritted my teeth and applied my "gotta finish what I've started" attitude to get through my all-too-public workouts. However, after I got over the initial revulsion at attracting so much attention to myself I began to realize that it really wasn't so bad. There was the occasional person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Gun on a Cold Day | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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