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...same, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. The film’s most dubious aspect, though, is a bizarre half-baked subplot involving child sexual abuse. In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Kilmer and Black—either from jet-lag or sheer fatigue of the press junket circuit—dismissively respond to questions about their equally insipid film. The Harvard Crimson: “Kiss Kiss” takes an incredibly cynical view of Los Angeles and Hollywood. Do you think it was an accurate depiction of show business? Black: It’s entirely accurate...
...each wrote a check for $25,000 on May 25, 2000, the day DeLay departed, to the sponsor of the trip, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative nonprofit foundation on whose board Abramoff sat. Those checks would cover most of the cost of the $70,000 junket. Sponsorship by the center made the trip allowable under House ethics rules, which prohibit lobbyists from paying for congressional travel...
Despite such attacks, Nomani plans more services, including one this week near Boston, as part of her Muslim Women's Freedom Tour, which some critics dismiss as a book junket in religious disguise. But her confrontational approach, not the substance of her arguments, is the problem for some would-be supporters. Such prayer services seem "less about worship and getting closer to God than about making a political statement," says moderate imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, author of What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West...
...even if the actor is not on his A game, he still expresses a genuine personal interest rare in the press junket crowd. Not only has he remembered my full name off his itinerary, he immediately starts engaging me in conversation about how difficult it was to get into Harvard, jokingly speculating about his own chances of acceptance at the college...
...McGreevey met Golan Cipel (Pronounced Tsi-ple, rhymes with ripple) on a junket to Israel in 2000, when McGreevey was mayor of Woodbridge, N.J. At the time, McGreevey was a rising Democratic star--mayor of the state's sixth largest city and the man who had three years earlier come within a whisper of unseating Governor Christine Todd Whitman. Among the stops on the tour, sponsored in part by the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest, New Jersey's biggest Jewish philanthropy, was the city of Rishon le-Ziyyon, south of Tel Aviv. Cipel then worked as the city's spokesman...