Word: rundown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Democratic presidential race is starting to get down to serious decision time. Whom will voters go for, Dave Matthews or Michael Bolton? They are among the pop stars who are lining up to raise money or otherwise lend their support to one candidate or another. Here's a rundown of who's backing whom--and whether the matches make any political sense. --By Kate Novack...
...abhorrent"--a result that might not have comforted a top diplomat of many other nations. The Saudis vowed to excise the objectionable portions, and Prince Saud insisted to TIME that "the books have been changed for the new school year." The U.S. embassy has asked for a rundown of changes but to no avail, according to Jordan. "We continue to have some concerns about the curriculum," he says...
...will be the end of Stifler, though he might do comedy again because he really liked being a cohost of last month's MTV Movie Awards with Justin Timberlake. But first he's backpacking with a friend through Europe. Then he'll return to promote this fall's The Rundown, a Peter Berg--directed action movie with the Rock, in which he hopes the serious Scott can break through. "I know people will say it's Stifler and the wrestler," he says. But he's O.K. with that. It turns out, he says, that more women walk...
...side effect of his closed-border policy is the rumors that circulate about him. A quick rundown: Is he still dating Jennifer Meyer, daughter of Universal Studios head honcho Ron? Probably--but he doesn't talk about it. Does he really have a bad back that limits his ability to do stunts? Yes, but it's feeling fine these days, thanks. Did Columbia Pictures try to replace him in Spider-Man II with rival boy-man Jake Gyllenhaal? And did he have to beg his way back into the Spidey suit, with the help of the aforementioned well-connected girlfriend...
...change for the 10,000-dinar notes. Baghdad has suffered from recent acts of sabotage on power lines and transmission towers; some neighborhoods have gone more than a week without electricity. Bremer calls the sabotage terrorist acts being waged by members of the former regime fully aware of how "rundown the infrastructure is, which makes it very fragile and vulnerable to these types of attacks...