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...than bring this up), Legally Blonde 2 also empowers that widely ignored factor in American politics, our fundamental good nature. That is to say, it allows the constituency among us that favors meaningful gun control and environmental protection (and darkly suspects that Paul Wolfowitz is Dr. Strangelove's nephew) to win one for a change. Not bad for a trim little summer comedy that's just out for a good time--and delivers...
...weeks into the war in Iraq, the maid realized something was up when her boss, Saddam Hussein's nephew, told her to bone up on a Tikriti accent so that she wouldn't attract attention as a Baghdadi when the family moved north. Two days later, she says, she found herself in a convoy of cars with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, headed for a rendezvous in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, with the Iraqi dictator. The 18-year-old woman, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity, was a live-in employee of Farhan Ibrahim Migdal al-Dolaymi...
Comedian ADAM SANDLER was a surprise guest speaker at the graduation ceremony of his old high school in Manchester, N.H. Sandler, whose nephew was a class valedictorian, filled in for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who canceled because the date changed--or as Sandler put it, because he came down with "a wicked bad case of a fake tummy ache." Sandler himself was never a valedictorian. "I came very close," he said, "but was narrowly beaten by 622 other students...
...year. This is Mills Corp.'s first venture in Europe, but Siegel says the company is close to breaking ground on other supermalls near Barcelona, Rome and Milan. Siegel attributes the smooth opening of Xanadú to the political connections of his partner in Spain, Jaafar Jalabi, the nephew of Ahmed Chalabi, the wealthy Iraqi exile leader who is close to the Bush Administration. Jalabi, who shares ownership of the snow park and mall with Mills Corp., negotiated the building approvals and land deals with Madrid and regional authorities. Not everyone is pleased. "We should take care not to lose...
...Really Old Economy A battle broke out for Centerpulse, Europe's biggest maker of artificial hips and knees, when Zimmer, of the U.S., made a $3.2 billion hostile bid for the company, trumping a $2.3 billion offer by Britain's Smith & Nephew...