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...need to get rid of the capitalist regimes in the region and that can only be done by creating socialist revolutions in the Middle East,” Meyers said...
...RID OF PET-ROCK BOARDS...
...employ junior artists, he works the phones, calling a threatening mob to the set. Ahmed, a burly 39-year-old, heckles producers, demanding a token quota of junior artists, even if it means the extras are "left outside the frame." Most producers comply, or just pay up, to get rid of him. Ahmed admits he has resorted to violence, but says he has no choice. "People say we are quarrelsome and abusive," he says. "But what can we do? We are fighting for our food, our children's futures...
...Bronfman did understand certain things. At Seagram he got rid of second-tier brands and inked a lucrative distribution deal with Absolut vodka. More important, he recognized that Seagram's reliance on the slowing liquor business wasn't healthy. He made some shrewd deals, generating a profit of almost 50% on his family's $2.2 billion investment in Time Warner and getting Vivendi to pay a 50% premium for Seagram's shares (alas, he took it in Vivendi stock). And he wisely sold millions of those Vivendi shares, taking about $1 billion off the table...
...involvement of allies aboard will be even more crucial to the task of remaking Iraq after Saddam than in the campaign to oust him in the first place. That may be one reason President Bush chose, this week, to emphasize his patience in relation to his commitment to getting rid of Saddam Hussein...