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...hear it in his voice when he says it, 'Toot,'" says Alice Dewey, a University of Hawaii professor emeritus of anthropology, who is a family friend and was the graduate studies advisor to Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham. "They are very close. [His grandmother] has always been a small, slight woman, but tough. She held his nose to the grindstone, but also lavished him with love...
...These cuts create an offputting pace that first lulls the audience into drowsiness and then jolts them awake. Linson, who wrote the screenplay, and Levinson try to incorporate multiple plots into Ben’s life, but many drag on too long. Ben’s anger at his friend, played by Tucci, for sleeping with his ex-wife two years after their divorce is especially asinine and interminable. In the end, despite all of his frantic efforts to accomplish so much, Ben’s only crowning achievement is to get Willis to shave off the left half...
...Hartlepool to serve as Business Secretary. Sharing top billing is George Osborne, the Conservative Party's azure-blooded Shadow Chancellor, a cherub-cheeked 37-year-old son of a Baronet. Their interactions with each other and with Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the eponymous banking dynasty, and Rothschild's friend and business associate Oleg Deripaska, a reclusive oligarch routinely described as Russia's wealthiest man, took place aboard Deripaska's super-yacht and in other opulent Adriatic locations over a long weekend in August. Throw in cameo appearances by Rupert Murdoch and his daughter Elisabeth, and the Corfu capers are proving...
...leak also awakened interest in Mandelson's dealings with Deripaska, a controversial figure whose multi-entry visa to the U.S. was revoked by the State Department in 2006. Mandelson and Deripaska have known each other for several years. Although invited to Corfu by his close friend Rothschild, Mandelson stayed on the oligarch's yacht because Rothschild's villa was full. In his E.U. post, Mandelson was theoretically in a position to assist the Russian's business interests. He angrily denied any impropriety in an interview with the BBC. "There has been innuendo in the newspapers that I gave favors...
...behoves all political parties to try and make capital at the expense of another in such circumstances. Perhaps in future it would be better if all involved accepted the age old adage that private parties are just that," wrote Rothschild. His letter and a further statement helped one friend, Mandelson, at the expense of another, Osborne. "If this was just about integrity, Nat[haniel] wouldn't have done it," says a member of the financier's circle. "I don't think he realized the storm he was going to create, but there's more to this than meets...