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...first African American and first woman to hold her city's top law-enforcement post. The Howard University graduate spent several wintry days knocking on doors in Iowa for Obama. She comes to her activism honestly: her parents met at a Berkeley student protest. Another Obama backer is Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, one of only two current African-American governors. Patrick, 52, shocked the commonwealth's political establishment in 2006 when he came out of nowhere to defeat a long-favored Democrat in the primary and trounce an incumbent Republican lieutenant governor in the general election. His name is often...
...first African American and first woman to hold her city's top law-enforcement post. The Howard University graduate spent several wintry days knocking on doors in Iowa for Obama. She comes to her activism honestly: her parents met at a Berkeley student protest. Another Obama backer is Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, one of only two current African-American governors. Patrick, 52, shocked the commonwealth's political establishment in 2006 when he came out of nowhere to defeat a long-favored Democrat in the primary and trounce an incumbent Republican lieutenant governor in the general election. His name is often...
...international viewers in the way that Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon did after it was released in 2000.) "I can say the China market is even more important than the Hong Kong domestic market," says John Chong, CEO of Media Asia, a leading production house and a backer of Peter Chan's historical movie The Warlords - the big winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards in April. In fact, no filmmaker aiming for a significantly larger audience or budget can afford to ignore China, whether they're making epics or otherwise. This year's family...
...inversion of the usual '60s-retrospective equation (J.F.K. + space = optimism). But what makes Mad Men great TV is how it subverts our expectations. Thus the philandering Don turns out to be Peggy's biggest backer in the sexist office. Thus Peggy in turn is not a persecuted saint but competent, focused--and sometimes cold. And thus a surprise twist in the second episode reveals Pete to be both opportunistic and sympathetic...
...Washington. The Bell Atlantic-TCI deal dwarfed the bidding war between Barry Diller's QVC shopping network and MTV-owner Viacom for Paramount Communications, which had held Hollywood and Wall Street spellbound in recent weeks. It also thickened the plot, since TCI-controlled Liberty Media has been a chief backer of Diller's, whose nearly $10 billion bid for Paramount tops Viacom's by about $2 billion. While Malone stressed his continued support for Diller, he described the Paramount brawl as ''very peripheral'' to TCI's main concerns. Asserting that ''we wish Barry well,'' Malone called Diller ''the only person...