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...Starbucks or the Chateau Marmont--a lot of directors like to meet there--and start talking," says Benjamin. "Paul Thomas Anderson and I were tripping for hours," he says, recalling his meeting with the director of Boogie Nights and Magnolia. The informal conversations covered a lot of different ground, but Benjamin always made a point of explaining that Andre 3000--the platinum blond superfreak put together from the spare parts of George Clinton, Rick James and Prince--is nothing like André Benjamin, the person named Esquire's best-dressed man in the world. "Andre 3000 is wild and crazy...
...Hostility toward the occupiers led Gasa to volunteer as a scout in nearby Gizo for the Coastwatchers, a diverse corps of volunteers who provided intelligence and ground support to Allied forces during the war. "The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal," American commander Admiral William Halsey said after the war, "and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific." Over a two-year period after the outbreak of hostilities in Europe in September 1939, Royal Australian Navy Commander Eric Feldt established a network of 100 Coastwatcher stations in a 4,000-km arc from the western border of Papua New Guinea to Vila in the New Hebrides...
...only to be ridiculed out of the job for being too young and inexperienced. But rather than retreating to a well-paid anchor job in some local market, says Rather, Jennings exiled himself to the Middle East to learn the news craft from the ground up. "Beirut was a hellhole in the 1970's," says Rather, "[but] Peter knew that if he was going to get the respect and credit of his peers, he had to come to a place like this and earn...
...part of a government monolith immune to commercial pressures, Fu and his managers have run one of the most transparent?and shareholder-friendly?companies in the new China. It stung when the largest private shareholder dumped its stake and publicly decried the possibility of a deal. Facts on the ground were piling up, and soon Fu began to prepare his retreat...
...civilized world by religious radicals of all stripes is their inability to doubt or question dogma that is clearly immoral in today's world. It is past time for prominent leaders from all the world's major religions to express a genuine commitment to finding a common moral ground that will allow all peoples to choose the faith that best fits their needs...