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...recruit a hit man to finish him off. "The Taliban have offered a lot of money, and if the assassin dies in completing his mission, the money will go to the assassin's family," Khaksar says. He sits at a desk with a picture of the late Northern Alliance hero, Ahmed Shah Massoud, on his desk, perhaps insurance in case the current rulers of Kabul might begin to doubt his loyalties. As a Taliban, he publicly enforced an edict banning television but he has one prominently displayed in his office. "Even as a Taliban, I had a TV," grinned Khaksar...
...four years, Margaret's place in history was assured. She was the first Diana, a woman whose life was a constant struggle with the rules of royalty. Margaret was just 14 when she became infatuated with Royal Air Force Group Captain Peter Townsend. Then 29, Townsend was a hero of the Battle of Britain and an equerry to her father, King George VI. He was also a married man with two children. But a secret romance eventually developed between them. The world learned about it at her sister's coronation in 1953, the year after Townsend had obtained a divorce...
Well, it's tough to be a hero when you run a real global airline. If Ryanair's Michael O'Leary can bask in the glory of having built up a business almost from scratch, Eddington's lot in life is to try and fix what someone else broke. After rising through the ranks to lead Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, the former Rhodes scholar (he left Oxford with a doctorate in engineering) took the top job at Australia's troubled Ansett airline in 1997. Eddington's cost cutting brought Ansett into the black and reduced its debt...
...even this god of war had to adapt to the 1990s and its politically correct paradigm. Changing times required a change of pace, and Arnold gamely struggled to reinvent his image with films like Last Action Hero. This 1993 effort (read: it’s an effort to watch) was intended as a sort of film within a film; the dreadful result is more a film without a film. Subsequent comedies like Junior, in which he became the first man to give birth, miscarried at the box office. When the news leaked in 1997 that Arnold had undergone surgery...
...recruit a hit man to finish him off. "The Taliban have offered a lot of money, and if the assassin dies in completing his mission, the money will go to the assassin's family," Khaksar says. He sits at a desk with a picture of the late Northern Alliance hero, Ahmed Shah Massoud, on his desk, perhaps insurance in case the current rulers of Kabul might begin to doubt his loyalties. As a Taliban, he publicly enforced an edict banning television but he has one prominently displayed in his office. "Even as a Taliban, I had a TV," grinned Khaksar...