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...Millionaire. The show's host (Anil Kapoor) is so skeptical of Jamal's ability to answer the questions that he has policemen try to torture the truth out of the lad. His explanations all relate to his hard life as a homeless orphan in the company of his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and, not often enough, with the winsome, consistently abused Latika (Freida Pinto). Salim is a type-A troublemaker, a fighter and conniver, restless and reckless, and thus the ideal complement to Jamal's caution, sensitivity and resilience. These flashbacks constitute the body of a sharp, teeming, dark, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slumdog Millionaire: A Dark Indian Epic Full of Life | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...structure of decision-making - especially on national security issues. Eisenhower told his friends that Kennedy had little understanding of the presidency. But on other matters, Kennedy had "tremendously impressed him;" he described him as "one of the ablest, brightest minds I've ever come across." And Kennedy told his brother Bobby that he was struck by the sheer force of Eisenhower's personality. He admitted that Ike was "better than I had thought." On his first day in office, Kennedy made his gratitude official: "I am sure that your generous assistance has made this one of the most effective transitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When New President Meets Old, It's Not Always Pretty | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

Kennedy was involved in the creation of the Institute of Politics, which commemorates his brother John F. Kennedy ’40, and is a member of the IOP’s Senior Advisory Committee...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ted Kennedy To Receive Honorary Degree from Harvard | 11/9/2008 | See Source »

Amrozi bin Hasyim, his older brother, Mukhlas, and accomplice Imam Samudra were executed by firing squad five years after being convicted for the terrorist attacks that killed 202 people, many of them tourists, on the resort island. The three Indonesians, shot just after midnight, were the first to be put to death under the country's tough anti-terrorism law, after numerous appeals for leniency were rejected by the government. (See pictures of Suharto's Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Tense After Terrorism Executions | 11/9/2008 | See Source »

...brother, Ari, is a high-powered Hollywood agent and the basis for Jeremy Piven's character in the HBO series Entourage, Ari Gold. Emmanuel himself was the basis for the character played by Bradley Whitford in The West Wing: Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rahm Emanuel | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

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