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Eating Smart
November 3, 2003 Issue
 

ASIA
 Philippines: Elevated Threat
 Best Friends: Phil. and U.S.
 Eulogy: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek
 Mme. Chiang: Worldly ambitions


ARTS
 Books: Leaving Mother Lake
 Movies: Blind Shaft digs deep


NOTEBOOK
 Cambodia: Bullets & Ballots
 N. Korea: Gulag nation
 Japan: Time to panic?
 Milestones
 Verbatim
 Letters


GLOBAL ADVISOR
 Giving the kids a break
 Paris' food markets
 To spank or not to spank?


CNN.com: Top Headlines
"It was as if he threw a bomb at me."
Yasuhiro Nakasone,
85-year-old former Japanese Prime Minister, of current PM Junichiro Koizumi's request that he not run in an upcoming parliamentary election because of his age

"'Liza, stop it, stop it!'"
David Gest,
husband of actress Liza Minelli, recounting how he tried to fend off allegedly drunken beatings by his wife, according to his $10 million civil suit. Minelli, who denies the allegations, has filed for divorce

"It is pretty clear that the coalition...

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