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Life in exile isn't so bad -- just ask Rifaat Assad, the fiftysomething brother of Syrian strongman Hafez Assad. Rifaat once ran a 20,000-man militia at home but was kicked out of the country in 1983 when Hafez Assad began to worry about his sibling's lust for power. Since then Rifaat has lived the lush life of a global businessman, managing millions of dollars' worth of investments in Europe and the Middle East. He visits the properties with an entourage of 20 that includes his two wives and several shapely female "secretaries," all traveling aboard two customized...
...political heir still has a jaundiced view of the Great Satan. "Our real desire, from the beginning, was to humiliate the United States throughout the world," writes Rafsanjani. Moreover, Westerners "are members of the school of pleasure-seeking, lasciviousness, enjoyment and entertainment . . . ((caught in)) the fetid, slimy bed of lust and pleasure." Showing some worldliness himself, Rafsanjani is offering to provide rare family snapshots and even "unpublished" photographs of the American hostages held for 444 days in Iran to anyone who snaps up his book...
...guess where these two polar-opposite paragons teach. You got it: Dartmouth, veddy Ivy League but founded as a prep school for New Hampshire Indian lads. Their common link, besides furtive lust, is Christopher Columbus. She has been asked for an article on the quincentennial of his first voyage from her people's perspective. He is laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site...
...child -- twisted, ruthless, utterly inhuman -- remind the authorities uncomfortably of the '60s Red Guard? Maybe the film was deemed too sexy for Chinese viewers. Though not much flesh is exposed, Ju Dou is a powerful essay on sexual longing, grounded in time-honored dramatic elements: fire, water, pain and lust...
...service that consists of organizing secret meetings and high-level luncheons or making threatening calls to federal regulators. While large sums changed hands, the report pointed out, no one was personally enriched by Keating's largesse. Nonetheless the committee seemed to overlook the fact that, among those who lust for power, money in the campaign treasury is a much bigger carrot than money in the pocket...