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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, home to the lovable groundhog-cum-weather prophet Punxsutawney Phil (popularized in the 1993 Bill Murray film Groundhog Day), got a boost last week when residents learned they had found favor in the traditional year-end Congressional appropriations bill. Thanks to some last minute wrangling by Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., the federal government will be allocating $100,000 for the creation of a weather museum there. According to a website maintained by the local chamber of commerce, the “discovery center” will “educate a variety of groups, individuals, ages...
...year-end movies are often solemn, sensitive items: women's work after 11 months of guy stuff. But Oliver Stone is alpha male incarnate, and his pictures, from Platoon to JFK to Any Given Sunday, are celebrations and autopsies of overweening machismo. Alexander, his first fiction film in five years, promises plenty more of the same. Instead of a stately epic--like Robert Rossen's 1956 Alexander the Great, with Richard Burton as the globe-annexing god-king--Stone presents a riot of sensations, military and erotic, through which Alexander (Colin Farrell) has to hack like an intrepid soldier through...
Kirshner, who called the year-end report helpful if not completely definitive, said his colleagues did not want to simply apply a “rubber stamp” to the previous group’s work or approve measures without first considering them for themselves...
TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) is published weekly, except for two issues combined at year-end by Time Inc. Principal Office: Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y. 10020-1393. Ann S. Moore, Chairman, CEO; Richard Atkinson, Treasurer; John S. Redpath Jr., Secretary. Periodicals postage paid at New York, New York, and at additional mailing offices. 2004 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. TIME and the Red Border Design are protected through trademark registration in the United States and in the foreign countries where TIME magazine circulates...
...state limits the number of automated-teller machines, or ATMs, that foreign banks can operate and restricts their access to local ATM networks. Citibank has found a way around this: become Singaporean. The bank, which currently has four branches in the country, plans to spend about $880 million by year-end to incorporate as Citibank Singapore Ltd. Citibank wants "to grow its international business and to be embedded in the local community," says Sophia Tong, a spokeswoman for Citibank in Singapore. Citibank has already localized in Malaysia and Australia and plans to do so in Hong Kong. But its status...