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...RAPS, SO HIS DEBUT GOT FILED under hip-hop by default. But this Chicago-born Jay-Z prot??g relies on orchestral swells far more than beats, and his subjects range from an indictment of rap fantasies ("Now come on everybody, let's make cocaine cool/ We need a few more half-naked women up in the pool") to a gentle skateboard romance as innocent and sincere as Annette Funicello...
...resist: 5. Every moment with Mr. T (“Rocky III”)—If you really don’t know why this made the list, you need to go watch yourself some “A-Team.” 4. Prot??gé-turned-no-good-punk Tommy Gunn comes between Rocky and his son; Rock kicks Gunn’s ass in parking lot (“Rocky V”)—Rocky is a family man, and if you don’t believe me, you can try talking...
...ruthlessness of Abu Deraa--and perhaps his growing fame on the Shi'ite street--has caused even al-Sadr to distance himself from his former prot??g. Last month al-Sadr put Abu Deraa on a list of people no longer part of the Mahdi Army. U.S. officials began to describe Abu Deraa as a "rogue militia leader" and a "free agent" no longer in al-Sadr's control. But some of al-Sadr's associates continue to praise Abu Deraa. Falah Shansal, a member of parliament from the al-Sadr bloc, told TIME last week that Abu Deraa...
...conflicts. "It's easy to say, 'Go Benedict! Hit the Muslims!'" says Gibson. "But that's not who he is. He is not a Crusader." Shortly before Regensburg, Benedict had endured Western criticism for repeatedly demanding a cease-fire after Israel's invasion of Lebanon. Angelo Cardinal Scola, a prot??g of the Pope's who edits Oasis, a Church quarterly on dialogue with Islam, says the fact "that radical Islam can turn to violence does not mean we must respond with a crusade...
...firing or letting go or having that difficult conversation, which I was never quite up to. I think the one time I actually did do it myself was when John [Reed, his co-CEO at Citi] and I decided to tell Jamie [Dimon, a Citi president and his longtime prot??g] that this was not working out. I felt that I had enough of a relationship with Jamie that I should be the one who tells him, which I did. But it was not easy...