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...metier: competitive athletics. If his brothers had always been better at figures and letters, Pervez would prove himself on the playing fields. Nasrullah Khan, a schoolmate who now heads his alma mater's botany department, remembers Musharraf entering a bodybuilding competition in his freshman year in which students struck poses before a panel of teachers in the gymnasium. Gola's baby fat had melted away; he took third place...
...fees this year alone. The windfall has resulted in Hanover's securing a divorce settlement more favorable than most ex-wives of public servants. Last week Giuliani agreed to pay Hanover $6.8 million, plus her legal fees and child support for their two children. Had the deal not been struck, there would have been a public trial, in which Giuliani's current girlfriend Judith Nathan was scheduled to be called as a witness. Hizzoner has saved his girlfriend's honor...
...forth to Majorca to consult about the German army deployment. But the controversy was overshadowed when terrorists attacked New York and Washington on Sept. 11. Scharping was the eighth minister to lose his job since Schröder came to power in 1998. He will be replaced by Peter Struck, the SPD leader in parliament...
There was no shortage of irony as Bronfman helped wrest Vivendi away from chief executive Jean-Marie Messier. After all, like Messier, Bronfman always came across as a bit of a dilettante and star-struck CEO. At Universal he once sent a memo to studio executives saying he expected to have double-digit earnings growth every quarter, a virtual impossibility in such a hit-driven industry...
...past Davis has sampled music close to his own tastes--funk, hip-hop and R. and B.--but other DJs caught on and started copying his style. Now he looks for the stuff they pass over. In 2000 he struck an obscurantist's mother lode. His local record shop, Village Music in Mill Valley, Calif., bought the entire stock of a defunct 1980s dance-music store at an auction. Davis went mad flipping through 10,000 records--mostly rare new wave European singles--that had been frozen in a storage locker for the past decade. "DJ Shadow is my best...