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...recently starred in the movie El Cantante, about salsa legend Hector Lavoe. How has he influenced your and your husband Marc Anthony's music? -Joshua Benjamin, Los AngelesThat whole era of music was such an important moment in musical history, and it influenced us a lot. They took some street, put it into music, mixed it all up and came up with this whole different sound. It influenced Marc, obviously, because he does salsa music. But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance...
...game will closely resemble the Harvard “Risk” game sponsored by the College Events Board (CEB) last spring. And Harvard students are likely to be active participants this time around too, according to Benjamin S. Decker ’08, the president of the Harvard Interactive Media Group, an umbrella organization that oversees the group responsible for managing the Harvard side of the tournament...
...Each man's position reflects his political reality. It would be politically perilous for Olmert, still enjoying the approval of no more than a quarter of Israelis, to commit himself on such hot-button issues while Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party waits to pounce on any perceived misstep. That has forced Rice to wade neck-deep into Israeli politics, meeting with two key conservative faction leaders in Olmert's coalition - Eli Yishai of the Shas Party and Avigdor Lieberman of Yisreal Beitenu, who have warned Olmert that they would bolt if he goes too far on any of the final...
...Benjamin Wittes, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, is among the court watchers distressed by the bellicose tone of some recent decisions. He points to the once rancorous Washington Circuit Court of Appeals as an example of an ideologically divided panel that has managed to find its way back to civility. "It's not clear yet if John Roberts understands that that achievement requires the judges to give something up," Wittes says. "Namely, excess rhetoric." Even some Justices express concern on occasion. The newest of the nine, Alito, has confided that he finds the rhetoric dismaying, and he recently noted...
...business style of emerging Asia can get into an executive's blood--so much so that he or she finds it hard to go back to headquarters. "I get a lot of rsums from executives just as they're being called back from an assignment," says Benjamin Zhai, head of China recruiting for Egon Zender International, a global executive-placement firm. He advises client companies to design specific new challenges for the returning expat, "or you will lose his motivation...