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...Muslim woman leader, Bhutto was almost an iconic figure in the West. But her actual career in office was one of great populist spectacles and little governmental achievement. It was a personna she parlayed. "I am not one of those leaders who sell lies and buy time," she told TIME in the mid-1990s. "No leader, no dictator could do what I have done...
...fame that can never compensate for his terrible guilt, the self-destructive drinking, drugging and sexual outlawry that sully his path to pop icon status, the bum musical trips - his adored brother may have been an authentic musical prodigy that Dewey dimly needs to emulate - that threaten his career. You've been here before, of course, with Walk the Line and Ray, to name only the most recent biopics about the trials and triumphs of pop-music icons. These movies, ritualistically recycling their subjects' most famous hits and their more infamous falls from behavioral grace, provide the last sentimental postscripts...
...move will return Kerr to the university that helped begin his soccer career...
...points in the team’s last game, a 69-60 loss at Connecticut on Dec. 6, Adako was key in helping the Huskies overcome a shaky start and grab a 43-38 halftime lead. He scored 13 points in the first half and finished with a career-high 19 points...
...Sarkozy's lead to reform elsewhere, much of French society still remains unwilling to drop the traditional attitudes that frown upon the flaunting of wealth, and which divide the celebrity of showbiz and the recognition of political leadership in separate categories. Sarkozy may well express his admiration for the career trajectory of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but French voters take politics too seriously to let that kind of Hollywood fame get mixed into governance. "Where some of us have a problem is with the apparent starization of the presidency" one conservative member of parliament who asked not to be identified explains...