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...Jerry, co-founded the chalet-style International House of Pancakes chain of restaurants; of cancer; in Los Angeles. He built the first blue-roofed IHOP in Los Angeles in 1958 and turned the business into a $40 million conglomerate by 1970. But three years later, a recession and tightened credit forced him to sell his stake for a mere...
...tape contains many chilling scenes. When the chairman of the U.S. appointed Iraqi Governing Council, Izzedine Salam, then the country's highest Iraqi official, was assassinated last month in a car bomb Zarqawi quickly claimed credit. Now he shows the act, in graphic footage shot from a parked car: A convoy of white SUVs disappears down a Baghdad street, followed a moment later by a ball of flame and explosion so intense the windscreen through which the cameraman films cracks before your eyes...
...with younger brother Jerry, co-founded the chalet-style International House of Pancakes chain of restaurants; in Los Angeles. Lapin built the first blue-roofed IHOP in Los Angeles in 1958 and turned it into a $40 million conglomerate by 1970. But three years later, a recession and tightened credit forced him to sell his stake for a mere...
...seem disingenuous to many readers. No doubt Clinton will feel--as he did when he became the first presidential candidate to admit that his marriage had not "been perfect"--that he has gone the extra mile, established a new level of candor in presidential memoirs and not received any credit for it. Of course, the sum of Clinton's presidency and memoirs is not the struggle against Starr. But the intensity of his feelings on that subject tends to put everything else--the substantive achievements and the embarrassments like the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich--on the back burner...
Administration officials credit Blackwill with masterminding the U.N.'s return to the country, steering the occupation toward June 30 and brokering the formation of the interim Iraqi government with U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. "He's not known for his people skills," says his former boss Brent Scowcroft. "But if you want talent, raw talent to get the job done, he is terrific...