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Giuliani is certainly deserving of the designation Person of the Year. But the greatest impact for good or ill in 2001 was made by Osama bin Laden. Neither Mayor Giuliani nor President George W. Bush would have been a candidate except for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Without the...
Ocean’s Eleven is a film that does not deserve a remake. The 1960 original featured the Rat Pack and an extended rodent family in a plot to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one New Year’s Eve heist. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean...
DIED. KING SALAHUDDIN ABDUL AZIZ SHAH, 75, constitutional monarch of Malaysia; in Kuala Lumpur. Salahuddin, an avid golfer and cyclist, took the ceremonial throne in 1999 under a five-year rotation system when he was elected by secret ballot among the sultans of Malaysia's nine states. Salahuddin married four...
More recently, however, notions of faceless bedroom producers, vinyl culture and spinning records as performance have become commonplace, thanks to mass marketing and overall cool factor. The downer this time is that, unlike thrilling chart-toppers like “Firestarter” and “Setting Sun,?...
However, while Osama bin Laden’s half-brother Baker bin Laden has donated to the University, neither he nor any University donors have in any way been associated with terrorist acts. The bin Laden family is quite large, with Osama one of 52 children, and the family has...