Wednesday, March 29. 1995
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Unlikely couple calls it quits
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The unlikely union between the "Pretty Woman" and her high-haired hubby is over.
The surprise marriage in 1993 of Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett had given hope to every man — an ordinary, even peculiar-looking guy gets the Hollywood beauty courted by a bevy of handsome leading men. Together, they dismissed naysayers who said it wouldn't last.
But the dream appears to be over. The couple issued a statement yesterday saying they had agreed to a legal separation after 21 months of marriage.
"We remain close and in great support of one another," the statement said.
Roberts' publicist Nancy Seltzer refused to disclose any details about the suit.
"Big surprise," said psychologist Joyce Brothers. "The surprise is that it lasted as long as it did."
Roberts, 27, and Lovett, 37, were married in a small church ceremony in Marion, Ind., after a whirlwind romance. The wedding was a hush-hush affair put together in just two days while Roberts was on a break from filming, "The Pelican Brief." It was the first marriage for both.
The actress had met the country singer with the eraserhead hairdo while filming Robert Altman's 1992 movie, "The Player."
The couple have long been fodder for supermarket tabloids, which suggested that all was not well in the relationship. There
were photographs of Lovett with other women and Roberts with othermen.
Before the marriage, Roberts was linked romantically to several of her former leading men, including Liam Neeson and Kiefer Sutherland. She had planned to marry Sutherland in an elaborate wedding on a Hollywood soundstage in 1991 but canceled just hours before the ceremony.
Brothers said she hoped men wouldn't see the breakup as an excuse to stop approaching beautiful women.
"Don't give up," the psychologist said. "So many men are afraid of beautiful women they never ask them. All a man has to do is focus and ask. They will be surprised how many women will react to them."
The African Affairs Student Association with pleasure invites you to participate in the activities for the African Awareness Week, here follows the program for the week.
AFRICANAWARENESSWEEK (MARCH 27-APRIL 1,1995)
Wed, March 29: Debate:"Polygamy or Monogamy-Which One?" Centennial Room, Kansas Union: 7:00 pm.
Thur, March 30: Public Lecture: "African Encounters on The Information Highway" by Kenneth Lohrentz. Lawrence Public Library Auditorium 7:30 pm
Fri, March 31: Soccer match: AASAvs South American Team, 23rd and Iowa 4:30 pm
Sat. April 1: Dinner featuring dishes from various African countries, Fashion Show, Dances, and Songs, Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM). 1204 Oread 5:30 pm
Sat. April 1: Party! Regency Room Holiday Inn: 9:00 pm
Co-sponsored by African & African-American Studies Dept.,
Student Senate, Student Union, Student Union Activities,
All Scholarship Hall Council
Hosted by African Affairs Student Association (AASA).
Long-distance charges near chopping block
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Locked in a battle to take customers from each other, rivals AT&T and MCI are competitors in another fight — taking on local telephone companies. Long-distance charges could go down as result.
AT&T and MCI, along with several hundred other long-distance companies, want the Federal Communications Commission tomorrow to lower fees they pay local phone companies. The decision would affect 92 percent of all telephone customers, said Kathleen Wallman, the FCC's top telephone regulator.
"If these prices go down, your long-distance telephone calls go down," said FCC Chairman Reed Hundt.
The local companies share of long-distance charges — $20 billion to $22 billion a year by FCC estimate — are passed on to long-distance customers.
For every $1 of long-distance revenue, 45 cents goes to local phone companies — about half of one's long-distance bill — to maintain the switches and the network used to route long-distance calls.
"This is the one of the largest, if not the largest, dollar issues before the FCC," said Wallman, chief of the agency's Common Carrier Bureau. "In terms of bottom line for consumers, it's got to be one of the most important because of the pass-through effect."
The local companies, which include all seven regional Bell companies, wanted to charge long-distance companies more than they now do. But at a minimum they want the FCC to preserve the current fees, known as access charges.
The FCC's action is likely to result in lowering the charges, said attorneys familiar with the proceedings.
Hundt said the FCC was trying to arrive at a fair access charge.
BellSouth said that access charges had dropped a total of $5 billion since 1991.
But local phone companies insist that long-distance companies are not sharing their savings with customers.
"Fair prices would be lower than they are today — hundreds of millions of dollars," he said.
"That's false," said Jim Lewis, MCT's senior vice president of regulatory affairs.
Wallman said long-distance companies had been passing reductions in access charges to their customers.
While other long-distance companies are not required to do so, AT&T, with 60 percent of the market, is required to pass a proportionate share of access charge reductions to its customers under FCC regulations, FCC attorneys said.
Long-distance companies and consumer groups contend that long-distance customers still are being grossly overcharged because the FCC didn't use the right numbers when it adopted a price-cap formula four years ago.
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