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...Budd Wilson Schulberg was born in New York on March 27, 1914, the son of Benjamin Perceval (B.P.) Schulberg, who became the production boss at Paramount, the most glamorous of the young studios. For Budd, as he wrote in the memoir Moving Pictures, Hollywood "was Home Sweet Home, a lovely place to play with lions and alligators, to ride my bike down lanes of pine and pepper trees, and to make lemonade from my own lemon tree." While B.P. rode herd over Cecil B. De Mille and Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, the teenage Budd enjoyed the attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Budd Schulberg, Boss of the Brando Waterfront | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...Fatah suggest that the conference political document will reaffirm the Palestinians' right to resistance, specifying nonviolent challenges to the occupation but remaining silent on the question of armed resistance and the future of the Fatah-affiliated militants of al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade. It will flatly reject Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, on the grounds that this undermines the rights of Palestinian refugees and of those with Israeli citizenship. It will also insist on a complete freeze on Jewish settlements in occupied territory as a precondition for any talks with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatah Conference Aims to Boost Its Radical Credentials | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

Leaders of Shas, which won 11 seats in the Knesset and is the fourth largest member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government, told TIME the party has no connection to the scandal. Roei Lachmanovich, spokesman for Shas Party leader Eli Yishai, told TIME that fundraising by the American rabbis for Sephardi institutions in Israel did not mean they were connected to Shas. He said that Shas institutions - including the rabbinical schools, or yeshivas - received their budget directly from the Israeli government and denied that Shas had been involved in any money-laundering or illegal activity. Furthermore, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jersey's Corruption Scandal: The Israeli Connection | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...dancing and theater shows. And yet to much of the outside world, the Katzes are participating in an illegal land grab forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit an occupying power from settling its own civilians on militarily controlled land. Some Israelis have admitted as much. While Benjamin Netanyahu, then as now Prime Minister, was negotiating with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1998, Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon got on Israeli radio and urged Israelis to settle more land fast. "Grab the hilltops, and stake your claim," he said. "Everything we don't grab will go to them." (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Settlers Versus the Palestinians | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Cavuto, Neil • overweightness of Dr. Regina Benjamin - "The President's pick for Surgeon General is fat" - is deemed a discussion-worthy topic on Fox News by, and then a moron wearing a "No Chubbies" T-shirt comes on and says she's "obese" because she's "lazy" and makes "poor food choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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