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DVD review: Pride & Prejudice (Stuff) - Movie: **** Extras: **** This two-hour dramatisation can't achieve in two hours what the 1995 BBC adaptation did in 5½-hours.

2003 Summer Fancy Food Show Review (Web-Exclusive) (The Gourmet Retailer) - SEPTEMBER 01, 2003 -- Once again, the Big Apple played host to the largest specialty food trade exhibit in America. The aisles were packed all three days for the 49th Summer NASFT Fancy Food Show in New York City, an event that came early this year, running from June 29 through July 1.

Review: 'The Hills Have Eyes' (AP via Yahoo! News) - You could look at "The Hills Have Eyes" as a pointed political statement, a nasty revenge piece in which a Republican family is brutalized by a pack of mutant cannibals, the offspring of miners who were exposed to government atomic weapons testing in the desert.

Microsoft employees feel maligned (CNN Money) - Google employees get free food, unlimited foosball, and laundry machines at the office. Microsoft employees, by contrast, say that they get a politically charged job review process that has turned into a popularity contest, WashTech.org reports. A supposedly meritocratic system under which employees get ranked on a bell curve has been taken over by managers who try to protect their friends,

Notes on love and disparage (The Aspen Times) - I know many women who long dreamt of marrying their Prince Charmings only to get engaged and battle fiercely with their fiances about everything from the honeymoon plans to the flavor and color of the fondant icing on the wedding cakes to the...

Review: 'Failure to Launch' (Tucson Citizen) - OK, fellows, here's a tip. The year's best chick flick for guys has arrived. "Failure to Launch" is "The Wedding Crashers" for 2006. Actually "Failure to Launch" is much funnier, and it includes a legitimately engaging performance by former NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw.

The Frisco Book Review Club recently hosted Joy Davis, who reviewed the book "Captain's Woman," during their February (Frisco Enterprise) - Hostesses were Suzanne Dorrell, Vivian McCallum, and Becky Sears. Davis is listed in "Personalities of the South," and is also listed in the 23rd and 24th editions of Who's Who of American Women. Joy's first book was published in 1981, and her latest publication has just been released.

03/10: Movie Review: 'The Hills Have Eyes,' has teeth ('cause it bites) (The Journal Times) - "Bambi" being far more terrifying than "The Hills Have Eyes," I can only conclude that this movie was intended to be funny.

Sensex hits new peak after a sharp correction in the week (New Kerala) - Mumbai: Stocks: The stock market bounced back with a vengeance and scaled a new peak of 10,782.34, rising by 1.6 per cent during the week under review, while it also witnessed a sharp correction of 377 points in reaction to a massive FII pull out in the futures.

Digs from Spade irk Pitt, Vaughn (The Monterey County Herald) - Jennifer Aniston's ex-husband, Brad Pitt, and her current boyfriend, Vince Vaughn, don't agree on much -- except when it comes to David Spade.