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...days eating nothing but McDonald's food, Morgan Spurlock is about to release his second feature film. This one's about his search for the most wanted man on earth. The filmmaker forgoes fast-food binges for another type of physical danger: searching for Osama bin Laden. In an interview with TIME, Spurlock opens up about his quest...
...everyone is so forthcoming. In Saudi Arabia - where he drives past the "bin Laden Aviation Company" - Spurlock visits a school and is allowed to question two 18-year-old boys. What does he get? Terse answers, then "No answer." And before long, from their hovering teachers, "Interview over." His only threat of physical violence comes in Israel, from the Orthodox Jews who see his camera and shout, "Get the hell out of here!" (You get the full versions of these confrontations in the new Random House book Spurlock has written about his trip...
...Howard, a 1991 graduate of KSG’s mid-career program and a consol general in Barbados, details the difficulty in becoming a member of the Foreign Service. To be eligible, applicants must sit for an exam (designed to eliminate 90 percent of applicants), go through an interview process, and attend a series of individual and group exercises. For Howard, this process took close to two years to complete.It is these two years without good hours or pay that drive people away from the Foreign Service. During this time, “a lot of people...
...housing crisis is nearing an end.” Zell cited the February increase in U.S. home resales—the first in over half a year—as evidence that the decline in the price levels of single-family housing was nearing its bottom. In an earlier interview with The Crimson, Zell discussed the power of leverage—using borrowed capital to increase investment returns—as a major reason why he chose to enter real estate. “Even when I was in college, I understood the benefits of leverage,” Zell...
...high school in Kirkcaldy, to think about the virtues of global trade. The ships Smith watched on the Firth of Forth, Brown says, carried both goods and people - Scottish emigrants leaving for the New World. "All the songs of Scotland are sad songs," Brown says, in a two-hour interview with TIME. "They're songs of departure about people who will never see each other again because they've gone to America." Brown, who is making a trip to the U.S. for meetings with President George W. Bush and the three Senators competing to succeed him, has been shaped both...