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...sources several circles outward from those who actually know Michelle. The end result is a book that reveals little about Michelle Obama not already in the public domain. There are tidbits here and there - as a corporate lawyer, Michelle handled accounts for Barney, the purple dinosaur - but readers already familiar with Michelle's life story will be disappointed...
...self-assurance - is not worth filming. Yes, the tragic hero usually comes to realize his crippling flaws, but maybe the greatest sin of a powerful man is in never, ever doubting himself. W. gives Bush a climactic wrinkle of copelessness, but the movie is mostly content to motor on familiar tracks. Like its central character, it seems never to have questioned itself about its mission or even asked if it had one. For this normally crazy-brilliant auteur, the last and lasting...
...Many observers had concluded that Cerberus believed it had been burned after buying an 80.1% stake in the struggling No. 3 automaker in 2007. At one point, there was speculation that Cerberus was trying to find a way to unload its ownership in the car company. However, an executive familiar with the talks tells TIME that Cerberus is not preparing to walk away from its investment. "They're long term investors. They would want to keep a meaningful stake in the combined companies," said the executive. A merger, however, may also be the best way for Cerberus to make good...
...kind of had my game going. I had really been struggling around the greens, since the short grasses are different up here from what I was used to back in Texas, but I finally started getting it together.” Favorable weather conditions and familiarity with the course both contributed to the success of the Texan. “I had seen the course before when I visited Penn, and immediately I really liked it. It reminded me of a course I played back in Texas,” he said. “It was designed...
...which stipulated that Kosovo remain under Serbia's control, left the problem unresolved and sowed the seeds for the recent flare-ups between the West and Russia in the Balkans and Caucasus. "It was not a good deal. We should have gone all the way," says a U.S. diplomat familiar with the compromise. Ahtisaari has also been criticized for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which he did on humanitarian grounds...