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...much higher percentage of its GNP as foreign aid—and recently announced a new initiative to help fight the nutrition crisis in southern Africa. When I was leaving the Bastille in Paris at 2:30 a.m., cabs were very hard to get, and I begged some rather drunk French men who were getting out if I could have theirs. They asked if I was from Holland, and I said Ireland, after which they all started shouting, “Robbie Keane, Irlanda, Robbie Keane” and immediately offered me the cab. My two British companions were baffled...
...contact worth it? At the time, many didn't think so. In the last years of Yeltsin's rule, he had become an always ailing, often drunk figure at the head of a corrupt state and chaotic economy. Why suck up to such a man? Talbott--a former editor at TIME who was a key policymaker on Russia throughout the Clinton years, ending up as Deputy Secretary of State--makes a convincing case for taking Yeltsin seriously. In his telling, Clinton's Russian policy was motivated above all by realism. Clinton and his team knew that Yeltsin wasn't perfect...
...make sure his police are doing their job. He has made a policy of doling out groceries to cops as a way of curbing their temptation to elicit bribes, but that doesn't mean he's always in a benevolent mood. When he finds a cop drunk on duty, Duterte admits, he personally doles out a thrashing...
...worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film business, breaking the hold of studio contracts that locked up actors, embracing television and, with Jaws, inaugurating the summer blockbuster. Wasserman's power began to wane when MCA was sold to Matsushita...
...Beijing Man in New York, Jiang played an out-of-work cellist who battles bitchy bosses, sticky-fingered factory managers and an immigrant's ennui. In Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum, he makes passionate love to Gong Li in a breezy patch of matted sorghum stalks, then gets drunk and boisterously brags about it. When Gong Li slams a door on him, Jiang's face transforms from posturing conquistador to ashamed fool. "He looks tough outside," says Zhao, "but inside, there is something softer, something more like a woman...