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LEONARDO DICAPRIO Over conservationists' protests, Thailand allows actor's film to be shot in a national park FRANK SINATRA New York will honor Old Blue Eyes with a statue outside the fabled Paramount Theater BORIS YELTSIN He gets it! Ailing Russian President at last agrees to set up process for naming successor	JERRY SEINFELD His sitcom is hit with $100 million suit from man who says he's model for the boorish "Costanza" CHRIS PATTEN Though received warmly on his return to Hong Kong, ex-Governor gets stuck in an airport elevator KENNETH STARR How'd he spend the $40 million? Audit lists detectives (FBI not good enough?) and staff luxuries

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"It's beautiful up here." JOHN GLENN, 77-year-old astronaut, upon the Discovery shuttle's launch, 36 years after his previous orbit of Earth "I always believed that if NASA really wanted to study the effects of space travel on an older American, they should have called me." STROM THURMOND, 95-year-old U.S. Senator, on the astronautic success of his former Congressional colleague

"You can kill, you can commit genocide, you can torture, you can do whatever you want as long as you declare yourself a head of state." VINCENTE ALEGRIA, protester outside the London court that quashed arrest warrants against Chile's ex-President Augusto Pinochet "Six hours from Viagra to throttle is recommended." DONATO BORRILLO, Air Force surgeon, warning pilots that the anti-impotence drug can disrupt color vision