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...online. Whether you're traveling abroad or in the U.S., Bnm.com can help track down and reserve the cheapest rentals available. If you don't care about the specific model you drive, check Bnm's prices and those at Hotwire.com then go to Priceline.com's car-rental page to bid for steeper discounts. For bidding help, go to Biddingfortravel.com...
RUPERT GRINT, 17 Making a bid for independence, Harry's best pal has a role in the indie Driving Lessons, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival April 30. Like Ron Weasley, Grint says, his new character is "very awkward around girls," including Julie Walters, who plays "a crazy old lady." For those following at home, she played his mom in previous Potter films; his mom this time is Laura Linney...
NOMINATED. Jawad al-Maliki, 56, hard-line Shi'ite leader; to replace outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari after he agreed to abandon a bid to keep his post; in Baghdad. Al-Maliki was endorsed by Iraq's Kurdish President, Jalal Talabani, as well as other key Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders who said they would support him in the hope of ending a months-long political deadlock...
NOMINATED. Jawad al-Maliki, hard-line Shi'ite leader; to replace outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari; in Baghdad. Al-Maliki was nominated after al-Jaafari agreed to abandon a bid to keep his post. Though al-Maliki, who is in his mid-50s, was not the first choice of rival factions, Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders said they would support him in the hope of ending a two-month political deadlock and moving the government forward...
...Even the enrichment announcement itself bears some scrutiny. Ahmadinejad was actually upstaged by his most detested domestic political rival, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - the former president who, despite the backing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini, lost his bid for a third term against Ahmadinejad. Rafsanjani broke news of the enrichment to an Iranian radio station several hours before Ahmadinejad, spoiling the surprise in an effort to deny Ahmadinejad the credit for the politically popular achievement...