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...Heritage had nothing to do with it," says the senior fellow, former Wyoming Senator Malcolm Wallop. "Belle Haven did." It would be a violation of House ethics rules if a group other than the official sponsor paid for a trip for a member of Congress. DeLay's spokesman Dan Allen insists, "Heritage sponsored, organized and paid for the trip," and Heritage spokeswoman Khristine Bershers said documentary proof exists in storage but was not immediately available...
...cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell 6 million cell phones in six months in markets including China, India and Turkey. "You've got nearly 2 billion people who will be buying a phone--need a phone--over the next five to 10 years," says Allen Burnes, Motorola vice president of high-growth markets. "This is the huge growth opportunity...
...aide to a European voting Cardinal was not convinced: "It's what a lot of Cardinals in there want to hear, but it's not the right message at this moment in the Church's history." Later, I was chatting with National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent John Allen, who said "if there is any doubt that Ratzinger was campaigning for the job, this makes it clear he was not. That's not the homily of someone who wants to convince the undecided Cardinals." Still, Ratzinger path to the job was never to campaign, but to hold firm...
...film’s protagonist is an Irish-American known only as She (Joan Allen) living in London with her husband, the weary and unfaithful politician Anthony (Sam Neill). At a party, She encounters He (Simon Abkarian), a Lebanese chef, and the two embark on an affair that forces an assessment of themselves both as lovers and in terms of their religious and political identities...
Streisand reneges, or Auerbach misunderstands. In any case, Bach is canned, United Artists is sold to MGM, and La Ronde, Hollywood executive-style, continues. Bach writes about all these shenanigans with due sardonic edge, and includes deft vignettes about Robert De Niro, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Martin Scorsese. But his portrait of Cimino, who did not cooperate in the writing of the book, strains for a balance that Bach finally cannot strike. He berates Cimino for rampant egomania and describes a conflict of interest regarding the director's choice of a location. Land that United Artists had cleared...