FEATURES
By SARAH KICKLER KELBER | May 12, 2007
Survivor: Fiji comes careening to a close tomorrow night at 8 on CBS (WJZ, Channel 13). In some ways, it seems like this season has been going on forever. (Upon seeing the credits in Thursday's show, I was sure that Erica was from, like, two seasons ago, but no.) But in other ways, this season is just warming up - now that all the adversaries are gone, the allies are turning on one another. But we only have two more hours to see that all play out. I'm definitely looking forward to it.
NEWS
By ROB HIAASEN and ROB HIAASEN,SUN REPORTER | July 9, 2006
To: Keith Richards From: A Concerned Fan Subject: Suggested Beach Activities Whoops is right. You gave us a scare with your tree-climbing stunt in Fiji. Who knows what inspired you - a 62-year-old former heroin addict who some claim died years ago (leaving only your skeleton to walk the earth) - to scale, then fall, from a coconut tree after reportedly enjoying both vodka and rum. You suffered a mild concussion and underwent an operation to drain blood from your head, and that's almost never a fun beach activity.
NEWS
July 23, 2000
THE UNITED States should follow the lead of Australia in devising sanctions to compel Fiji to restore political rights to its people. Fiji is a Pacific island paradise with fewer than a million; it's north of New Zealand and southwest of Hawaii. Half or more of the Fijian population is descended from Melanesian and Polynesian seafarers who discovered the place centuries ago. Indo-Fijians, nearly half the population, are descended from Indians who immigrated to tend sugarcane a century ago. Ethnic Fijians dominate the poorer rural classes and ethnic Indians rule the commerce and better jobs.
FEATURES
By Stephanie Shapiro and Stephanie Shapiro,SUN STAFF | July 8, 2000
It is always about Bud. It was always about Bud. And it will always be about Bud. Good thing Bud is a dummy. And good thing he's such a happy dummy. Otherwise Bud's wistful poker face, far-away eyes and stiff demeanor would try the patience of Job and anyone else who meets him. And Bud, a professional tourist who lives to sightsee, has met plenty of people, all of whom he so thoughtfully calls his new friends. The guy gets around -- he's in a perpetual state of summer vacation. But if you think Rehoboth, Whack-a-mole and boogie boarding are Bud's idea of vacation, think again.
NEWS
By Ellen Goodman | May 28, 1999
BOSTON -- First of all, imagine a place women greet each other at the market with open arms, loving smiles and a cheerful exchange of ritual compliments:"You look wonderful! You've put on weight!"Does that sound like dialogue from fat fantasy land? Or a skit from fat-is-a-feminist-issue satire? Well, this Western fantasy was a South Pacific fact of life. In Fiji, before 1995, big was beautiful and bigger was more beautiful -- and people really did flatter each other with exclamations about weight gain.
NEWS
January 22, 1999
Clinton urges U.N. to restart talks on curbing nuclear armsGENEVA -- Laying out his position for the world's "next major" disarmament treaty yesterday, President Clinton called on the United Nations to restart negotiations aimed at halting production of material for making nuclear bombs.John Holum, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said an agreement at the Conference on Disarmament, which he is attending, to limit production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium will help avoid a "runaway arms race in South Asia."