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...Grainge joined Polygram's songwriting division and gradually moved up the ranks at the company, which would later become Universal following a merger with MCA. Eventually, under the tutelage of Doug Morris, the Universal chief executive he'll be replacing, Grainge rose to run the company's U.K. headquarters and then its international operations. As EMI has faltered in recent years, he has become a key force behind helping British acts break into the U.S. market, most notably, the troubled Winehouse. (Read a TIME profile of Amy Winehouse...
...cannot deny that President Obama’s Feb. 27 reauthorization of key provisions of the Patriot Act compromises his pledge to scale back the Bush-era surveillance state. However, his reversal is not the product of politically expedient cowardice; it is the responsible act of a commander-in-chief placing national security before naïve ideology...
...Pakistan's army commander Ashfaq Parvez Kayani summoned elders, or maliks, from the Mehsud tribe who had been hiding in Karachi, Peshawar and Islamabad from Taliban assassins. Eyewitnesses recount that the elders were so scared of being spied on by the Taliban that they rolled up to the army chief's office with the car windows plastered over with newspapers so their faces couldn't be seen...
Coleman joined the administration in Mass. Hall two weeks ago as Chief Diversity Officer, and will now be responsible for taking the lead in ensuring staff diversity...
...since the 2006 peace talks is the integration of the former Maoist guerrilla fighters into Nepal's army, a conflict that led to Prachanda's resignation as Prime Minister last year. India's military academies have historically been the training ground for Nepal's top officers - the Nepali army chief graduated from the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun - so the Maoists have long claimed, most famously in a fiery speech by Prachanda in December, that India backs the Nepal army and wants to restore the monarchy. Ironically, the influence of India is the one point on which the former King...