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...tweak the story from poor boy wins big to Everyman needs a girl. "And once I'd decided on this search for a lost love," he says, "I had to rework all the other stories. The structure is the same, but the questions [asked by the game-show host] are different." Beaufoy made four trips to India over 18 months "to get a completely fresh look at India. I spent a long time in the Juhu slum in Mumbai. I was trained as a documentary director, and I just went back to doing that. I listened to people, talked...
...biggest partier on the planet, Diddy, will be in town to host a bash. Lad mag Maxim, Playboy's rival for absurd Super Bowl extravagance - its 2004 bash in Houston, "Circus Maximus," featured Ferris wheels, fortune tellers, cancan dancers and Paris Hilton - is proceeding but with half as many guests as last year. "We're not immune to what's going on," says Glenn Rosenbloom, president of the Alpha Media Group, which publishes Maxim. "But having said that, our readers love football, our advertisers love football, and so do we." The sponsors for the party, which will take place...
...players in European business to discuss ways that their firms could catch up with successful American management practices. The success of the meeting led Schwab to create the European Management Forum as a non-profit that would facilitate such conferences on an annual basis. The choice to host the meetings in Davos, Switzerland - a town famous as a 19th century destination for Europeans seeking treatment for lung disease - was based on its isolated location and the privacy it ensured. Read more about Davos...
...Tuesday, Capitol Hill played host to the historic Inauguration of President Barack Obama, with virtuous talk of bipartisanship, common good and putting aside "childish things" in promising the dawn of a new era in Washington. Less than 24 hours later, it was clear how little had actually changed, as Senators from both parties expressed growing frustration with Obama's top legislative priority, the $825 billon stimulus plan meant to jump-start the nation's ailing economy. (See pictures of President Obama's Inauguration...
...President will start to make sales calls in Washington as well. After meeting on Thursday with his key economic advisers, Obama is expected to host the Senate and House leadership of both parties on Friday. He has also pledged to, at their request, meet with House Republicans next week, so they can propose their ideas for the package. Despite the growing rumblings of both parties in the Senate, majority leader Harry Reid on Wednesday reiterated his pledge that Obama will have a bill to sign into law by President's Day on Feb. 16. But the question remains: Whose arms...