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...Islamic Revolution in Iraq (currently the largest party in Prime Minister Maliki's coalition), was based in Iran during the Saddam years, Sadr's movement remained inside Iraq operating underground. And in the chaos that followed the toppling of Saddam, Sadr's movement quickly filled the vacuum in the vast Shi'ite slums that house more than half of Baghdad's population, organizing security and basic services and turning what is now known as Sadr City into a vast stronghold. SCIRI's Badr Brigade, although smaller, was trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guard during its years in exile...
...Stan Rosenfield, whose clients include George Clooney, says that from now on, "TMZ is going to be a major player. Harvey Levin and his staff are getting more stories than the others." Among the vast array of blogs and websites devoted to celebrity news, Rosenfield says TMZ is one that he and his colleagues will "have to learn to deal with like any other form of communication now." Mintz has noticed that the scope of TMZ's reach has jumped beyond the Internet. "I've seen video clips used on network affiliates and in the body of syndicated television entertainment...
...shift in power between the sexes has nowhere been greater than in romantic comedies. The men are about as useful as a pitcher of spit, while the women have careers and well-furnished apartments and vast freighters of wisdom. In Julianne Moore's next movie, Trust the Man, she plays a successful actress, while her husband has no remunerative employment. How does her real-life husband feel about being portrayed that way? You can ask him. He wrote the movie...
Private-equity firms pumped up with vast amounts of money are snatching public companies in an unprecedented buyout wave. In an updated, renamed version of the leveraged buyout, or LBO, private-equity firms acquire undervalued companies, load them with debt, overhaul operations and then return them to the stock exchanges whence they came in ballyhooed IPOs--collecting fees at every turn. Fever pitch officially took hold last week when hospital chain HCA was taken private by its management, founder and three buyout firms in a record deal worth more than $30 billion...
...notice the only woman on board. I realized she had cooked our food, served it, and was now holding the boat steady on course until the men finished their meal and deigned to choose a direction. She caught my eye and smiled softly. The distance between us was vast: Traveling alone and choosing my own direction, I was effectively male. She would never be anything but a wife serving fish to menfolk.Unfortunately, defying social convention has its price. I was not always invited to sit at the men’s table and share their vodka. Instead, most...