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...Kidman certainly is. Her next project could be a film for Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark). She'll also appear, opposite Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore, as Virginia Woolf in The Hours, an adaptation of the Michael Cunningham novel directed by Billy Elliot's Stephen Daldry. Asked if her choices will change now that she's on her own, she laughs. "Now that I've got to support myself? No," she says. "I love theater. I love art films. Now I have the freedom to go to Denmark and work with Lars. Different things are available...
...From tried-and-true sources, both politically and industrially. Big Coal won Bush-Cheney West Virginia and the November election; Big Oil and Big Energy (particularly Enron, who under Bush buddy Lay invested $1.3 million in Bush's presidential run and $461,000 in his gubernatorial efforts) got him that far. Cheney has looked around at the U.S. energy scene and decided that America's energy workhorses of the past two decades - fossil fuels, and if you want cleaner air, nuclear plants - have been recently over-burdened with regulation, and need to be unleashed...
...know your summer vacation depends on a couple of guys sitting in a dark room in northern Virginia...
...TIME this week alerts us: SCOURGE OF THE PLAYGROUND. The subhead reads, "It's dodge ball, believe it of not. More schools are banning the childhood game, saying it's too violent." Tamala Edwards' article reports that "in a growing number of school districts in such states as Texas, Virginia, Maine, and Massachusetts, circles of kids dodging and throwing balls at one another have been banned from gym class...Opponents warn that dodge ball - also called murder ball and killer ball in some places - could be an incubator for later aggressive, even violent behavior...
...Adams reports that "ten or twelve years afterwards when these same boys were fighting and falling on the battlefields of Virginia and Maryland, he [that is, Adams] wondered whether their education on Boston Common had taught [them...