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...Enter Ali G, a tracksuit-wearing "hip-hop journalist" and the alter ego of British comic Sacha Baron Cohen. Da Ali G Show (HBO, Friday nights, 12:30 a.m. E.T.) is a little like This Is Spinal Tap, if the doltish rockers were asking the questions. In one of a series of artfully staged (but real) newsmaker interviews, Ali asks former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros BoutrosGhali: "Which is the funniest language? It's French, innit?" When he asks a panel of religious leaders, "Isn't God just an overhyped David Blaine?" you swear one of the panelists, a Dick Cheney...
...much of a hedonist to grieve for long, however. Soon his high spirits buoy him back to the surface, and he's off again: to New York City as an art dealer, to Africa as a professor of English, and beyond. Throughout, Boyd expertly keeps up the irregular tap-tap rhythms of diary writing--often the gaps in Mountstuart's chronicle, when he is too depressed or having too much fun to write, are as eloquent as the words themselves--and Boyd has a biographer's eye for arranging the multitudinous ironies and serendipitous connections that are fate's signature...
Cavanagh’s first goal was the key score of the game. His rebound tap-in of junior Tim Pettit’s slapshot extended what had been a too-close-for-comfort Harvard lead into a 2-0 advantage, and made it difficult for the offensively-starved Huskies to come back...
Palepu says he is optimistic that as companies are forced to find financial experts for their audit committees, they will also start to think more carefully and creatively about all their board seats. Instead of fixating on CEOs, they will tap the likes of venture capitalists, retired partners in accounting firms and retired investment bankers. Rising pay will help generate interest. Until recently, outside directors of publicly traded companies typically received $45,000 to $150,000 a year in cash and stock, based largely on the size of the company and the number of committees a director joined. As directors...
Having donned striped vests and bowler hats, they emerged for an energetically choreographed ragtime medley, complete with tap dancing and the classic 80s dance move, “The Robot...