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...been a Bollywood icon for years, this man behind some of the most stunning movie soundtracks ever composed (chief among them the innovative score to Roja). But it's his music for this year's Oscar darling, Slumdog Millionaire that has made A.R. Rahman an instant hit with western audiences. Not only are sales of the soundtrack soaring as the film opens wide in Britain and the United States, but Rahman has been nominated for three Oscars - for best original score, as well as for the songs "O ... Saya" and "Jai Ho." (Read the behind-the-scenes story of Slumdog...
...significant power as the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, the Commerce Department is viewed as a Cabinet backwater-a notion bolstered by Gregg himself, who in 1995 supported a nonbinding resolution that would abolish the very department he has agreed to run. Bonnie Newman, Gregg's former chief of staff, was appointed to replace him in the U.S. Senate...
...option for the White House job might be a skilled Washington hand like former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, who oversaw the Obama transition operation. Podesta, however, has indicated that he is not interested in returning to government; sources say he turned down the White House "energy czar" job that ultimately went to former EPA Administrator Carol Browner...
...connections for shepherding legislation through the Senate, where the likes of Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus have their own strongly held notions of what reform should look like. His stature and close relationship with Obama also would have helped fight the impulses of some in the Administration - including chief economic adviser Larry Summers - to delay the push for health reform until after the economy gets fixed...
...growing peril facing the logistical route in Pakistan - notwithstanding Washington's plans to increase the deployment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan - has prompted the U.S. to turn to Russia for help. Last month, after visiting Moscow, U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus announced that the U.S. had reached a tentative agreement with Russia on using its territory to supply the Afghanistan mission. And Medvedev seemed keen to reaffirm that cooperation, even as Bakiyev made his announcement about the Manas base. "No one is trying to evade responsibility," Medvedev said, emphasizing that Russia and Kyrgyzstan would continue to cooperate with...