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After holding the three-month job interview from hell, DONALD TRUMP picked a winner on his NBC show, The Apprentice: Chicago entrepreneur BILL RANCIC, 32, whose new, $250,000-a-year job is to manage construction of a 90-story luxury riverfront building in his hometown. Upon edging out his rival Kwame Jackson, Rancic declared, "The American Dream is still alive." They used to say the same thing about the Donald's hair...
...social call punctuated Hu's banner year after taking over China's presidency from Jiang Zemin. At home, Hu fashions himself as a uniquely accessible Communist Party leader concerned with the plight of common folk--far different from Jiang, who seemed most comfortable in his glitzy Shanghai hometown. Ordinary Chinese welcome Hu's pledge to raise stagnant peasant incomes, his firing of officials for covering up last year's SARS epidemic and his ban on ostentatious airport send-offs for traveling dignitaries. At the same time, he has hobnobbed with leaders of capitalist nations at G-8 meetings and pressured...
...While Lateef and Lyrics Born stoked up the crowd with cries of “the real hip-hop is over here” while pointing to different sides of the room, the silliness of the whole exercise seemed an interesting parallel to the coastal posturings and fierce hometown rivalries that have done so much harm to the movement...
...other hand, there’s such a thing as getting drunk on “fun” in art–of course, I’m damning Pauline Kael. I wrote film reviews for my hometown paper when I was in high school, and when I got the job the newspaper gave me a copy of Kael’s 5001 Nights at the Movies; after spending several exasperating hours at that book, I put it down never wanting to see the word “fun” used in a review ever again. Wielding that...
...involvement—that’s going to take participation on everyone’s part to do that,” says Passanese, who was tapped for the project in part because he owns and runs a landscaping business in his hometown of Buffalo...