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Permanent Acting Interim Director and Founder Louise Sacco says MOBA’s “basic mission is to spread the enjoyment...
...figure the usual Nanni-esque protagonist - and in Il Caimano he even gave up the lead role, to Orlando. "I wanted to abandon that [self-referencing] persona," Moretti says. "Before that, there was me, me and me, with some other satellites around me." For the role of Berlusconi, Moretti spread the wealth: Italian star Michele Placido plays the part for a bit; a look-alike actor Elio De Capitani also takes on the role; and Berlusconi himself appears in real television footage. But Moretti reserves the last Berlusconi scene for his actor-of-choice: himself. In a chilling finale...
Since he took power in 1979, the Ayatullah has threatened to spread his uncompromising brand of Islamic fundamentalism across the fragile, oil-rich states that line the Persian Gulf and to upset the global balance of power. He has sought his goals openly in Iran's seven-year war with Iraq, and he has promoted them stealthily through terrorist bombings and kidnapings abroad. Now Khomeini's brooding presence loomed larger than ever as he seemed ready, even eager, to take on a host of nations ... The greatest threat to Khomeini's Iran may finally come not from the battlefield...
...When it comes to the world of Washington lobbying, golf seems to bring out the worst in people. At least that's the impression you get from the Abramoff e-mails, hundreds of thousands of which have been obtained by federal investigators. A wide-ranging inquiry has spread across Washington and led Wednesday to the release by the Secret Service of the dates and times of two Abramoff visits to the White House. The Administration has previously acknowledged three other visits Abramoff made to the complex. The Administration also released e-mails Wednesday showing that a former official, David Safavian...
...while the free meals, luxury sky box tickets and other gifts Abramoff spread around Washington have gotten a lot of powerful people in trouble over the last year, one junket that he arranged is proving particularly damaging. In August 2002, Abramoff flew Reed, Safavian, Congressman Bob Ney of Ohio, and Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, on a rented Gulfstream II jet to St. Andrews, Scotland, for five days of golf, food and merriment. In the last few weeks, court action and new e-mails have tainted all four guests on the trip...