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085666
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The first time I met Richard Pryor, he was close to dead drunk. A tumbler of Scotch in hand, he stumbled into his home office, where I had been waiting for some time with Thom Mount and Sean Daniel-two executives at Universal Studios-and, after the briefest of introductions, turned to Daniel, stared at him for a second, and said, "You don't like me, do you?" Daniel made a nervous denial, asserting that he liked the comic-who was then by far Universal's highest-grossing star-very much. Very, very much. Richard wasn't buying it. Apparently, Daniel had been on the set of Pryor's most recent movie, and although the men had barely talked, the highly intuitive comedian read something in the exec's eyes.
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085665
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The wind has changed in India's capital, though not in a way that might disperse the ever more noxious smog produced by the thousands of new cars that hit the streets each week. Since the November terrorist attack on Mumbai, India's richest and most populous city, magazine and newspaper headlines have called for the country to get serious and make real "war on terror."
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085667
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The Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip that began in late December has focused the world's attention on the conflict between the Jewish state and the armed cadres of the Palestinian terror faction Hamas. Yet the media coverage has, for the most part, failed to provide an accurate picture of the larger geopolitical confrontation in Gaza. The conflict is viewed as simply another battle in the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinians.
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085668
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Dr. A. Jerome Minkoff, family practitioner, three years a widower and coming up on his sixty-fourth birthday, met Larissa Friedman, two years into her widowhood and fifty-two, at a charity dinner at the Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago for ALS, dreaded, goddamn Lou Gehrig's Disease, from which both their spouses had died. Each had donated $25,000 to the annual national ALS fund-raiser in Chicago, and they were seated next to each other at the same table near the dais
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085660
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Before December 11, 2008, few Americans had ever heard of Bernard L. Madoff. Yet after his arrest for running what authorities allege was the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Madoff not only achieved the sort of notoriety that is reserved for arch-criminals; he also became, in an instant, one of the most famous Jews in the world.
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085662
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Two political figures dominated the final months of the 2008 presidential campaign. One was the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama. The other had been unknown to all but 670,000 Americans only a few minutes before she was first introduced by the Republican nominee, John McCain, at a rally in Ohio on the Friday before the Republican National Convention, only 66 days before the November election.
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