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...Winners JIANG ZEMIN China's president finally gets invitation to Dubya's Crawford ranch in Texas. Bush will teach him how to lasso terrorists one-handed NATALIE DU TOIT One-legged swimmer makes finals in Commonwealth Games. For her next trick, she'll do it with one hand tied behind her back TOBY KEITH Singer tops U.S. charts with The Angry American album. International version, Arrogant Annoying Americans, is in the works Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Pop princess cuts short Mexico tour after giving press the finger and ending a concert early. Charm school is finally paying off NAOMI CAMPBELL Supermodel...
...Reform Faster than a plunging Enron share, tougher than a bear market, the U.S. Congress last week whisked through the biggest changes to business oversight in 60 years, creating harsh penalties for fraud and an independent board to regulate accounting. But the legislation is silent on one controversial accounting trick, treating stock options as expenses when companies do their taxes but not when they report profits. It's a sleight-of-hand, critics say, at the heart of many recent corporate scandals. "CEOs have paid themselves huge amounts through stock options to wreck their companies," says Peter Montagnon, Investment Manager...
...have on the broader issue of patients' rights. If he wins, the "psychiatric survivors" movement may have a new poster boy, and other states might look more carefully at patients who may be sick or may just be antisocial. Of course, finding the line between the two is the trick. What Yoder may tell us is that we're a long way from figuring out the difference between being ill and being a jerk...
HANKS: It's a luxurious trick of the cinema. We're actually doing something as opposed to just standing there and emoting. If we had had dialogue about each other, it would have been so saccharine. What I'm assuming about the scene is that's the call that I've heard since I was 8 years old, and it's time to go sit down at the piano and play this tune with quote-unquote Dad. We knew it was going to be that moment that speaks volumes about our relationship and our past history...
...heart. But here again, small blockages may not trigger any symptoms. Even the gold standard for detecting fatty deposits, an invasive procedure called angiography, can't tell you which plaques are likely to burst--though doctors are starting to experiment with new imaging techniques that may do the trick...