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...prosecute Khalifa for alleged crimes linked to the rise and fall of his €1 billion empire. When Algeria issued an arrest warrant last month for its only home-grown international business titan, it marked the most recent slide in Khalifa's long-plummeting fortunes. Once considered a hero and source of hope for Algerian youths, Khalifa is now sought by police for suspected criminal mismanagement and money laundering at the Khalifa Group, his banking, transport, television and construction conglomerate, which went belly-up in July...
...arguments for restraint on Arafat are well known in Israel, all the way up to Sharon?s cabinet. Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky wrote in Haaretz on Tuesday that "We must face the simple truth: Arafat has unsurpassed stature in Palestinian society. Palestinians view him as a national hero. And since Arafat's strength is sustained by his opposition to Israel, his exile would only fortify his position." An exiled Arafat would retain the leadership of the Palestinian national movement, thereby rendering redundant the Palestinian Authority, which would be unlikely to survive his departure. Simply put, no one would be willing...
...long ago, everyone--even John Kerry's rivals--assumed that after Labor Day the lanky Massachusetts Senator would be cruising at the front of the Democratic pack. He had the war-hero bio and plenty of foreign policy credibility (perfect for post-9/11 politics), plus prodigious fund-raising abilities, a personal fortune and the best presidential hair since J.F.K. But as Kerry officially announces for President this week--a symbolic political rite that glosses over the fact that he has been running flat-out for a year--the question being asked most...
...industry, which each year churns out close to 1,000 films, virtually all weepy melodramas staged as singing, dancing, multiple-costume-changing revues. Three years ago, fate brought Lloyd Webber and celebrated Indian composer A.R. Rahman together, and so was born Bombay Dreams, a campy bildungsroman that follows young hero Akaash along a morally perilous path from the slums to Bollywood stardom. Having played on London's West End since June 2002, Bombay Dreams is set to open on Broadway next April...
...plaque bearing God's laws. He prevailed over civil libertarians who sued for its removal, and rode his fame even further in 2000, when he was elected chief justice of Alabama's supreme court on the slogan "Roy Moore: Still the Ten Commandments Judge." But while he earned folk-hero status among Evangelicals and conservatives, last week he finally pushed the legal establishment too far when he ignored a federal court order to remove his largest monument to the Commandments, a 5,280-lb. granite carving known as Roy's Rock. Moore and some helpers had installed the sculpture...