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...wild ride for Osama bin Laden and his followers: They've wrought mayhem in America's political and financial capitals; been driven from their Afghan sanctuaries and forced to duck and dive as scores of their top operatives have been arrested or killed; launched new attacks and continued to broadcast propaganda tapes. Most important, they've managed to survive. After all, as Henry Kissinger once observed, the conventional army loses by not winning, but the guerrilla wins by not losing...
...year it reported figures. The ultimate secret ingredient is stardust, which is why Jean-Louis hired Claude "Coco" Bakonyi as schmoozer in chief. Bakonyi handled meet-and-greet chores for TV station Canal Plus, and made sure every guest who appeared on the station's popular Nulle Part Ailleurs broadcast ended up at Costes afterward. "We're not a palace, and we don't have the biggest rooms, so it's important that when they come here, they're among friends," says the man Johnny Depp calls Papa. So when Dustin Hoffman comes through town and shows...
Added: Five Universal Studios theme parks broadcast network. NBC would run the new company, which would have estimated annual revenues of about $13 billion. Vivendi would keep 20% of the new firm. In return, it would receive $3.8 billion in cash and reduce its debt by $1.6 billion - less cash than Vivendi's original price tag, but a deal nonetheless. The lead actors are crowing over their triumph. "It was a long struggle," concedes Bob Wright, chairman and chief executive of NBC, who will head the company called NBC Universal if the deal goes through. "We want...
...world. Experienced observers will let the uninitiated peer through telescopes and binoculars for a glimpse of this heavenly show. "My phone hasn't stopped ringing," says Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute science museum and host of a show on the Mars encounter that will be broadcast over many PBS stations this week...
Poker was first broadcast on television in 1993, but it wasn't until 2002 that the game became watchable. In No Limit Texas Hold 'Em (the preferred game of the poker cognoscenti), players are dealt two cards that only they can see, called "hole cards," and then five more community cards are placed in the middle of the table. According to Lon McEachern, the play-by-play guy on World Series, watching Hold 'Em without seeing the hole cards "was like having McEnroe and Boris Becker playing Wimbledon in the dark, then turning on the lights after the point...