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...dinner with Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg and received 300 speaking invitations a week, things are going well for you as a freshman Senator. So you might forgive Barack Obama for being cautious in his first year on Capitol Hill. Why should he risk blemishing an almost perfect public persona that could help him win the presidency one day? But last month Obama finally found his cause: he wanted to lead Democrats in the push for lobbying and ethics reform. The issue seemed perfect for him. It's high profile because of the Jack Abramoff scandal. And it plays...
...action film. I think of films like ‘Lethal Weapon’ as action films, and I’ve never actually done one like that.” Despite appearing in nearly 60 films since 1966, Harrison Ford shows no signs of slowing down his film persona. Indeed, his latest action flick, “Firewall,” features the graying Ford madly dashing to save his family and high-kicking baddies. But that doesn’t mean the real-life Ford hasn’t changed. There’s a lingering sense that...
He’s what you might call “street.” Indeed, the 36-year-old Boston MC is so dedicated to his on-stage persona that he doesn’t give out his real name to reporters. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he toured under another moniker—A-Train—with now-all-but-forgotten Boston greats like Edo G and The Almighty RSO. Today, he runs a website for local hip-hop artists, and acts as a historian and elder statesman for Boston...
...that scandal-and a potential five-year prison term-has tainted his persona, Horie is discovering that his fans are abandoning him. Since the raid on Livedoor on Monday, the company?s stock has dropped 52%. The press, owned by barons whom he scorned, has continued to pile on its anti-Livedoor stories. Horie has not stopped giving conferences but he looks tired and stressed while maintaining that he is cooperating with the investigation. He declares that he will be vindicated. He says that any suggestion that he will resign is ?irresponsible.? In the battle of the Hills Tribe...
...become the dominant party after the elections in March. But we do not yet know what the character of that legacy will be. Kadima does not currently have an identity outside of Ariel Sharon himself; it is more of an expression of his leadership and larger-than-life persona than a functioning political party with a clear ideological platform. Sharon’s exit from the political stage leaves a leadership vacuum that will not be easy to fill. “There is no single American figure to compare [Sharon] with,” wrote James Bennett...