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...16th century, the fiery invader Babur swooped down from present-day Afghanistan to begin his conquest of Hindu India, which started three centuries of foreign rule known as the Mogul period. In 1528, one of his noblemen built a mosque in Ayodhya. History suggests the Muslim invaders dismantled a Hindu temple to do so. That's the building and the site that is provenance of the current conflict: some Hindus say the temple, and then the mosque, sat on the actual birthplace of Rama. For a century-and-a-half, Hindus and Muslims squabbled over the mosque. For Hindus, reclaiming...
That's not to say those who have been burned will stay away from the fire for good. Even as Rupert Murdoch rebalances his books, he is keeping his eye on the long-term ball. The media mogul may have written down his KirchPayTV stake, but he still holds a $1.5 billion "put" option - a risk-averse instrument that gives one the right to sell an asset at a pre-determined price - in the business that he could use as leverage to get his hands on any part of the Kirch empire that interests him. Including Formula...
...Through the 40s and 50s Kelly would make about two "straight" films for every three musicals. Selznick wanted him to concentrate on being a dramatic actor, but that was idiocy, blindness - couldn?t the mogul see that Kelly "got-ta dance", that his feet had to do their stuff? Mayer was slow coming around too; Kelly didn?t become a star until he was loaned to Columbia for "Cover Girl," where he was paired with Rita Hayworth and, behind the scenes with an old Broadway pal (actually a young one, since he was 19 at the time), Stanley Donen...
RICHARD CHANG Chip Mogul...
...Tokyo School of Music, who directed Flipper's Guitar's radio shows in the late 1980s. "Like those free headphones he included in the initial pressing of Fantasma. He's certainly no businessman?more like a record company's worst nightmare." Actually, he could become a music mogul's dream: the guy has moved 300,000 units worldwide and looks ready to break...