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...with honors as a celebrity wife. She made her own films when schedules permitted and appeared alongside her husband in Days of Thunder (the 1990 race-car flick on which they met), Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut. Clasping Cruise's hand, she walked a lot of red carpet. She was always at his side, raising two children, suing the tabloids. She will be missed. Last February Cruise announced that their marriage was coming to an end. "It was a big shock for me," says the woman who must now reinvent herself as, simply, Nicole Kidman. Still...
...served with honors as a celebrity wife. She made her own films when schedules permitted and appeared alongside her husband in Days of Thunder (the 1990 race-car flick on which they met), Far and Away and Eyes Wide Shut. Clasping Cruise's hand, she walked miles of red carpet. She was always at his side, raising two children, suing the tabloids. She will be missed. Last February Cruise announced that their marriage was coming to an end. "It was a big shock for me," says the woman who must now reinvent herself as, simply, Nicole Kidman. Still...
...roll call of Harvard’s most powerful alumni: the six members of the Harvard Corporation and three members of the Board of Overseers who composed the University’s presidential search committee. They were waiting for a very special guest. There was no red carpet, no fanfare—but he was indisputably a Very Important Person. His name was Lawrence H. Summers. He took a back way upstairs and met them in the presidential suite...
...provincial capital. There, Awan and his team raided the home of Wali Muhammad Reeki, a powerful tribal chief who keeps two pet camels on his estate and has a taste for their milk. Reeki took the police to a relative's house. In a locked room, hidden under a carpet, they found the mummy that Reeki said he'd acquired from a man claiming it had been coughed out of the ground in an earthquake...
...everyone looooves a peacekeeper. Need to expel some East Timorese? Get a solid start, then call the peacekeepers in, with red carpet to boot! Need to buff your Georgian signature on the Yalta Declaration of Liberated Europe? Call in the international observers! What are guns, we good liberal democrats ask, next to a balmy blue? Or physical power, next to the moral power of that noblest of all goddesses, the international community...