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Doomed-To-Repeat-It.Com
Not the News. Not now!
By ANTHONY SPAETH
June 6, 2000
Web posted at 1.30 p.m. Hong Kong time, 1.30 a.m. EDT
One of the neater new websites is Doomed-To-Repeat-It.Com, which gives
actual news, weather, sports and entertainment stories--though no stock quotes--
from a year from now. Here are some of the highlights for this week in the year
2001.
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 ASIA BUZZ
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- Thursday, June 1, 2000
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- Thursday, June 1, 2000
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- Wednesday, May 31, 2000
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- Monday, May 29, 2000
Culture on Demand: Heaven on a Stick
The Hawaiian islands of Lana'i and Maui
- Saturday, May 27, 2000
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• Fiji rebel leader George Speight announced that talks to end the 55-week
takeover of the national parliament were making progress on a number of issues,
including his demand that ethnic Indians be barred from government positions in
Kenya, Congo, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. "Some of the hostages are getting
tired," he told reporters outside the parliament building's gates, "and we're
all a little sick of eating Indian takeaway." Deposed prime minister Mahendra
Chaudhry said he didn't care anymore. "I'm waiting," he said, "for my H1B visa
from the U.S. consulate."
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• Hopes receded for a release of the 25 hostages held in the southern Philippines
for the past 60 weeks when President Joseph Estrada declared Sunday: "I'd rather
work for the uplifting of the, um, poor and disadvantaged as is expected of me
by the Philipino people." Estrada was visiting the Cannes Film Festival.
• Japan's Economic Planning Agency said the country's struggling economy had
experienced a "fortuitious and major boost" when a Swiss tourist lost a wallet
filled with cash at Narita Airport. But the U.S. State Department criticized
Japan's recent decision to deny welfare benefits to foreign investment bankers
based in Tokyo. "Aside from the hostages in the Philippines and Fiji," demanded
a State Department spokesman, "we can't think of any other group that deserves
material relief more."
• Malaysia's former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim went on trial this week
for "having naughty thoughts about canines." His trial received another setback last month when a court threw out charges that Anwar
had prayed only 4.7 times on an August day in 1973, or the withdrawl of earlier
charges that Anwar had been seen picking his toes in Poughkeepsie after a World
Bank summit in 1992.
• A panel of senior jurists at The World Court in the Hague refused to ajudicate
the Cricket Corruption case, saying: "We can't figure this game out at all.
Seems like a bunch of guys standing around for hours upon end. And that's not a
crime anywhere, except in New York City."
• Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said her government would never cede
control of its troubled north to Fijian coup leader George Speight "without a
better offer." Speight, speaking to reporters from atop the roof of a
recreational vehicle on the Fijian parliament grounds, said it was the first he
had heard of the idea.
• The entire National Basketball Association posed naked atop Seattle's famed
Space Needle for the calendar-cum-performance art piece entitled, We Got Balls,
despite protests from Charlton Heston, Rudy Giuliani, Rosy O'Donnell, Anita
Bryant, William Bennet and Cybill Shephard. A competing project by India's
national cricket team collapsed last week when a New Delhi judge refused to
grant any of the players bail.
• Tom Cruise's mother shocked the entertainment world by announcing that the
death-defying stunts in Mission Impossible II, now out on video, had not been
performed by Cruise, but by Keanu Reeves. "They made a kind of a deal," she told
Variety. "Tom is allowing Keanu to take his role in Eyes Wide Shutter." The
sequel to the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film will be filmed on location in Fiji with
Julianne Moore in the Nicole Kidman role and Jet Li as "Wong." Penny Marshall is
directing.
• This week's weather forecast: Too darned hot, just like last year.
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