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...pictures of Person of the Year 2009 Runner-Up Nancy Pelosi...
...This must be quite the roller coaster for you - I've spoken to a few critics who didn't know your name when they walked into An Education but walked out predicting that you'd be the front runner for Best Actress It's odd, actually, because going into the Golden Globes, it was a year to the day to the hour from when the film had premiered at Sundance. So it's been around for such a long time that it's hard to really process. I read for the film in late 2006, and it was the third...
That comes from a long career working his way up through the London music scene. After leaving school at the age of 18, he started as a runner at a talent-scout company called MPC and says he was so junior he was "getting the secretaries sandwiches." Desperate for a job in music, he started cold-calling record-label bosses in the Music Week directory until he got through by chance to Maurice Oberstein, a senior executive at CBS Records. His persistence was rewarded with a job in the company's artists and repertoire (A&R) division, hunting...
There are many viable candidates but no clear front-runner for the presidential election scheduled to be held May 30. Candidates belonging to the parties in Uribe's ruling coalition are expected to keep his hard-line "democratic security" policy and Uribismo alive. "Uribe represented a part of Uribismo, but there is also Uribismo without Uribe that will try to continue," says Jaime Araújo Renteria, a former head of the Constitutional Court and current presidential candidate. Congressional elections March 14 will help indicate the strength of Uribe's alliance...
...Mitt Romney, today considered the front-runner for the party's presidential nomination, is a former governor. But he's not the only Republican with a gubernatorial record champing at the bit to embrace the campaign theme that Obama is a failure as President because he went into the job without sufficient executive and private-sector experience and because he is a liberal at heart. And, while Romney so far has made many of the right moves in setting himself up for 2012, there remains among Republican wise men and women the nagging feeling that neither Romney...