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...Understandably, not many of the Big neo-con thinkers chose to sit for Feguson's cameras, but one of them, a slippery, sneering and supercilious man named Walter Slocombe, a senior advisor to CPA, did. He was a reluctant warrior, whose visits to Iraq were few and brief. But he says he was in constant contact with Col. Paul Hughes, who was struggling to keep the Iraqi army intact. Hughes is a polite, low-keyed sort of guy, but when asked about his contacts with Slocombe he finally cracks. Mostly what they discussed, he says, was what kind...
...Beijing, having $1.4 trillion to invest is a nice problem, but a complicated one nonetheless. "It's the classic elephant-in-the-room syndrome," says one Western banker who advises the State Investment Company. "Where does he sit? Anywhere he wants, sure. But he's got to be very careful that he doesn't squash anything when he does." The mere whiff of a rumor that, say, Beijing may shift part of its foreign-exchange holdings from dollars into euros has rattled world currency markets several times in the past year...
...been long brewing. Barry Bonds will surely overtake Hank Aaron's cherished record of 755 career home runs, but he can't shake the suspicion that he's used anabolic steroids to juice up his game. Commissioner Bud Selig, a close friend of Aaron's, has glumly agreed to sit in the stands at Bonds' games. Selig's secret wish: that Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees star with a clean rep and 498 homers, could miraculously hit 258 more before Bonds gets his three...
...good fairy tales, this one starts with Claudia Schiffer. Once upon a time a fireplace fell on Schiffer's foot. She was pregnant at the time. "When a marble fireplace falls on your foot," Neil Gaiman explains, "and you're 7½ months pregnant, you stop going places. You sit around, and you read." Schiffer read Gaiman's novel Stardust and told her husband that it was the best book she'd ever read. Schiffer's husband is the director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake). And thus it was that Gaiman finally made his big Hollywood movie...
...have driven a Lincoln into one, and Joe Perry of Aerosmith--among many others--has one shaped like a guitar. Bono has lampooned the average activist rocker as a guy "with a swimming pool shaped like his own head." Paul McCartney said he and John Lennon used to sit down to compose saying "Let's write us a swimming pool...