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...Peter Baron needed a catchy name for his latest invention, a new kind of straw that added flavor to a drink. He reckoned Suckahh was perfect. "We took it to the U.S. and we got slaughtered," admits the 58-year-old Australian inventor. "They said it was probably the worst name you could ever...
...plane carrying our heroes on the African savannah - "Who said penguins couldn't fly?" - all the while issuing commands to his brain-challenged underlings, one of whom gets a quick laugh trying to spit and ending up with a string of drool on his bib. Julien the lemur (Sacha Baron Cohen) is a frantic pantaloon who waves the stars on the plane back into Economy: "This is First Class. It's nothing personal. It's just that we're better than you." Toward the end of the movie he's convinced the villagers of the need for a human (actually...
...Texas: A Primary Ghost, 7:30 a.m. E.T. Yesterday, Dallas was witness to shades and shadows of what might have been. Onetime presidential contender John Edwards sat with family mourners at the funeral of his former national finance chairman, Dallas attorney Fred Baron,. It was Baron who confirmed in August that he had sent funds to Edwards' now acknowledged mistress. The multimillionaire attorney and key Democratic fundraiser, who made a fortune in asbestos lawsuits, died of cancer just days before the climax of the main event in American politics. Baron had played a key role in reviving the Texas Democratic...
...funeral took place Monday, Austin radio airwaves reverberated with ads criticizing one Baron-backed Democratic statehouse candidate for taking money, as the ad put it, from a trial lawyer who had paid off Edwards' mistress. At the funeral, Iowa Governor Chet Culver, a Democrat and friend of the Iowa-born Baron, said the late attorney loved spending hours on the telephone raising money for the Democrats. Culver also told Edwards that Baron was the ex-presidential candidate's "biggest fan." Edwards did not speak at the funeral. - By Hilary Hylton / Austin...
...Heading the cast is Peter Mandelson, the co-architect of New Labour, recalled by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the start of October from his post as E.U. Trade Commissioner, and installed in the House of Lords as Baron Mandelson of Foy and Hartlepool to serve as Business Secretary. Sharing top billing is George Osborne, the Conservative Party's azure-blooded Shadow Chancellor, a cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch...