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...just after sundown and a sweltering 104ş (40şC) at a racetrack in the middle of the desert outside Dubai, and Joseph Hobeika, 24, from Lebanon, wants to live Al Helm (The Dream). He's trying to become a race-car driver, and he's got two experts to help him: Khaled al-Mutawe, winner of the Dubai Racing Academy's 2007 cup, and Rasha al-Emam, the Saudi production director for MTV and a race-car driver herself. Hobeika struggles and at one point admits, "I spent seven years at university, and I can't find a job. I just...
This is all part of a reality show, after all, and every reality show needs its epiphany. Al-Emam is part of the team developing MTV Arabia, a channel for the Arab world that will make its debut on Nov. 17, and Al Helm is the local version of the popular MTV show Made. Al Helm, however, is more than just youthful wish fulfillment. "It's very powerful and unusual for an Arab man to admit failure like that on TV," al-Emam says. And in Saudi Arabia, MTV's largest market in the Middle East, the episode quietly subverts...
...After more than 30 years on the Appropriations Committee and now in his second stint at its helm, Obey, 69, has been asked by a lot of people for money: fellow members requesting earmarks for projects in their districts, the Administration looking to fund everything from the war in Iraq to the White House operating budget and constituents from his home district in Wisconsin. In that time, he's had no problem speaking his mind and saying no to those requests he deemed undeserving...
...process of replacing Ridolfi commences, Harvard is hopeful that assistant coach Jose Barbosa will take the helm. Barbosa has been the Crimson’s assistant coach for two years, and his relationship with the team has grown strong in that time...
...emphatic win over national lightweight powerhouses Wisconsin and Princeton. In addition, they took home silver and bronze metals at Eastern Sprints and IRAs, respectively. Tucker’s record speaks for itself. She has shaped the Radcliffe lightweight program into a championship-caliber team, and without her at the helm, the crews must maintain that standard.Despite the coaching change, the philosophy will be the same—and the goal of a season-ending championship remains the same.“We’ve met with both coaches a couple of times,” co-captain Amanda Kolb...