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BERKELEY, Calif. - Michigan has a question for California: Was it a good idea to prohibit, as your voters did in 1996, the use of race- and gender-based affirmative action by public schools and government agencies for hiring, contracting and admissions decisions?

Ten years ago, the i...

Restaurant in Toronto Serving Sushi on Half Naked Models Sep, 10 2006 - 2:30 AM

- A downtown Toronto Asian restaurant's female executive chef worries the owner's decision to serve sushi atop near-naked models during the film festival will degrade the restaurant.

Monsoon Restaurant's Winlai Wong says it's selling sex and the restaurant is 'better than that'.

Clothed only...

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Two trends have dominated the mainstream home furnishings marketplace for the past decade: an urban loft style of skinny sofas and plastic chairs, and a masculine look of big brown leather sofas and chunky dark tables and chests.

A new company called Brocade Home is launching with t...

MIAMI -- The name of the game is the Swipe and Win progressive jackpot, but to Freddy Howard it feels more like the win and swipe.

Officials at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Fla., paraded Howard around after telling him he had won nearly US$260,000, even presenting him a giant cardboard cheque, but told him nearly 15 hours later he had won nothing.

Howard ...

TORONTO -- A downtown Toronto Asian restaurant's female executive chef worries the owner's decision to serve sushi atop near-naked models during the film festival will degrade the restaurant.

Monsoon Restaurant's Winlai Wong says it's selling sex and the restaurant is "better than that."

Clothed only in bikini swimwear and banana leaves, a male and female model will recline on t...

I admit it. I am not immune to the lurid lure of reality TV. My all-time favorite show so far was The Starlet. Call it an occupational hazard, but on the two occasions that I tuned in, I couldn't take my eyes off of it and I have never laughed so hard as I did watching Faye Dunaway in the most dulcet of tones instruct the gals that they were about to be receive the ultimate challenge. They wer...

"You want the tour?" he says, friendly, but with the unspoken acknowledgement that it's slightly weird to be walking a perfect stranger through your house. That's another thing about him, something that differentiates Scott from Carrot Top. Carrot Top would be running through the place, laughing and opening drawers that rubber snakes and ping-pong balls would pop out of.

B...

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Deseret Morning News "THE PROTECTOR" - ** - Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao; dubbed and with English subtitles (Asian dialects); rated R (violence, profanity, gore, vulgarity, brief nudity, brief sex, brief drugs, racial epithets).

The elephants featured in "The Protector" have more personality than the star, which is a real problem.

This martial-arts/revenge thriller is supposed to b...

Organ Loft"Broadway" - Organ Loft ** 1/2This French-made mix of "The Most Dangerous Game," "Fight Club" and "Saw" has its share of tense moments. French with subtitles. Running time: 90 minutes. Not rated, probable R (violence, profanity, gore, drugs, vulgarity).

Thriller based on the comic book miniseries about a sorcerous pact. Not screened for critics; to be reviewed next week. Running...