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...spending hundreds of millions of dollars on antidrug propaganda and sending federal agents to bust pot clubs for those using medical marijuana to ease the pain of crippling diseases. Republican Senators are even trying to withhold federal funding from states that allow medical-marijuana ads on public transport. These are not unrelated measures. The President is proud of his Big Government moralism. As he put it in his first State of the Union message, "Values are important, so we have tripled funding for character education to teach our children not only reading and writing, but right from wrong." Sounds inoffensive...
...night of Nov. 29, Warner Bros. transformed more than 500 American theaters into secure compounds for a sneak preview of The Last Samurai. The $140 million Tom Cruise vehicle, designed to transport the star from the screen to the Oscar podium, was filmed on location in New Zealand and Japan with a cast of 750. All the hype, along with the adolescent story line--samurai fight against the Japanese army!--guaranteed the film to be of interest to pirates. And in the age of faster Internet connections, protecting a movie has become like guarding very expensive air. So to prevent...
...rouge or lipstick; to an imaginary Mrs. Li, who is in her late 20s and has a good job and some disposable income; and to the thirtysomething prototype Mrs. Wong, married, with one child, and more inclined to use skin care than makeup. Even the type of transport is factored in--L'Oreal reckons that if Miss Yu rides in a car, she's probably a Lancome consumer, but if she rides a bicycle, she's made for Maybelline...
...Burj Al Arab hotel, if you can't believe you're in the Middle East, that forsaken corner of the world that seems doomed to endless war, terrorism and zealotry. The chauffeur of your Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph will collect you at Dubai's palm-studded airport, transport you past the shimmering skyscrapers and finally pull up to a resort that feels a lot more like Las Vegas than Arab sheikdom. Here, in an awesome, sail-shaped edifice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, obsequious staff will conduct you to one of the Burj Al Arab's sumptuous suites, featuring...
...from office. But Blair has never been one to wait for blows to land. In speeches and on TV and radio, he hammered home the virtues of his bill, and by implication his premiership. Last week his aides were planning a blitz of new initiatives in health, crime and transport on the assumption he'd at least stay in office, and perhaps emerge safe and dry from both Hutton and tuition fees. They find the alternative - leading a fractious, 1980s-style Labour Party unwilling to follow its leader - so gruesome that they could hardly bear to think about...