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...Iraq, U.S. ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte, 65, is the consummate diplomat--discreet, deliberate and always careful choosing his words, whether in English, French, Greek, Spanish or Vietnamese. So a day after President Bush nominated him to be the nation's first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Negroponte's brief exchange at a breakfast with the ambassadors representing the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council was telling. Asked by a diplomat whether he should "congratulate you or offer condolences on your nomination," Negroponte replied simply, with a dose of dry, self-deprecating wit that he doesn't often reveal...
...Burnett focused on the boxers' personal lives, moving wives, parents and kids to Los Angeles to live with them. Turpin doesn't figure heavily in the debut, but there's a brief scene in which he cuddles Anje. "He lived a guarded life," says Stallone, "but when he was with his daughter and girlfriend, he became incredibly childlike." Says Burnett: "He wouldn't sleep in the bed we provided. He'd sleep under the bed, or in the closet, because he was so used to doing that in case there was shooting outside." The 16 middleweights are divided into...
...Bloomberg in a landslide. But not all is well in Gotham. He’s soon forced to deal with a blizzard, a Giuliani-esque confrontation with idiotic city-funded art, and gay marriage rights. The only superheroics, in fact, occur during Mitchell’s flashbacks to his brief crime-fighting career and are generally played for comic relief. In one of the best anecdotes, he gets beaten up by the city’s tough female police commissioner as punishment for his goofy antics...
Wednesday, February 23. Lucy Walker’s “Devil’s Playground.” Followed by a brief film discussion moderated by Ph.D. candidate Linford Fisher. 7 P.M. Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave. Free...
...roasts were often brief and the Men and Women of the Year often left shortly after the production. Past Crimson articles refer to the awards as “slick p.r.” and “publicity stunts”; in 1973, Crimson arts writer Dwight L. Cramer ’74 wrote, “The publicity engine runs smoothest in the Pudding’s absurd Man and Woman of the Year Awards...