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...biggest transformation has come from current Liberal Party leader James Tien. A well-heeled son of a textile tycoon, he had been appointed a member of Tung's Cabinet. It was Tien who raced to Beijing after the huge rally on July 1 and, on his return, made the stunning announcement that Beijing wasn't fully aboard Tung's Article 23 plan. Specifically, he said that the director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing, Liao Hui, felt it wasn't necessary to push the bill through last week, as Tung was demanding. Tien then said...
...DIED. BUDDY EBSEN, 95, Hollywood hoofer who became the world's best-known yokel by playing the role of accidental oil tycoon Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series The Beverly Hillbillies; in Los Angeles. Ebsen started out as a lanky song-and-dance man, and partnered with Shirley Temple in the 1936 film Captain January. He almost played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, but left the film because he was allergic to the aluminum makeup used for the role. Ebsen later starred as a geriatric private investigator in TV's Barnaby Jones...
...Russia wouldn't qualify for E.U. membership for decades. "Everybody thought it was like he'd never been exposed to real politics before," the diplomat says. "People couldn't take him seriously." Starting this week, Europe will have plenty of new chances to take him seriously. As the media tycoon turned Prime Minister assumes the E.U.'s rotating six-month presidency, his brand of brash, simple, big- picture politics will reach a continent-wide audience. He takes center stage at a crucial juncture in the Union's history: 10 countries are set to join next year, the details...
...Times newspaper after it ran an article criticizing China's congress. The department also forbade coverage of other sensitive topics, including Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the government's cover-up of the SARS epidemic; separatist movements in Tibet and Xinjiang; the financial scandal swirling around Shanghai tycoon Zhou Zhengyi, and avian flu, which has broken out twice in China in the past five years and can kill humans...
...upcoming The Aviator will star Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, but who will play the tycoon's legendary love interests...