marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
>
>
Iran
Thanks for the link!
We'll observe the further diplomatic development.
>
U.S.
> And also, everyone is talking about these new advisory committees
> composed of Think Tank members that are effectively a fourth arm of the
> US government, exhorting more influence that the cabinet, judiciary or
> legislature.
>
>
http://www.cctv.com/english/20061114/104058.shtml
>
Excerpt: "The president also said the U.S. goal in Iraq remained a
government that can sustain, govern and defend itself and serve as an
ally in the war on terror."
The US 'Think Tanks' are IMO a great and useful system; isn't
it?! Decisions are made by the President in alliance with the Congress,
though. And now, as a majority of the democrats prevails, he's got to
talk and cooperate more closely with the representatives of both
parties in order to get things moved and finally (hopefully) settled in
a decent way - for the 'transatlantic community', the Middle East,
and the 'rotw'.
Eastern Europe & Siberia vs. Italy
>
> from the land of yes communism made everyone equal, obviously if I grew
> up in the Ukraine, I would have been equally beautiful
>
> Here's another story from some time ago that still makes me laugh.
>
> !!!!
>
> (from The Age, Monday 26/6/00)
>>
>>-> A well-meaning but carelessly written letter to President
>>-> Vladimir Putin from a 17-year-old Russian schoolgirl has cost
>>-> its author her leaving prize and a place at medical school.
>>-> Anna Provorova was looking forward to the leavers' dance at her
>>-> village school in northern Russia but had no video recorder
>>-> with which to film the event. So she wrote to the president
>>-> for help. Her spelling was beyond reproach. But she broke
>>-> two rules of formal Russian correspondence: she forgot the
>>-> exclamation mark after the greeting "Esteemed Vladimir
>>-> Vladimirovich Putin!" and spelt the world "you" without
>>-> a capital letter. These mistakes constituted a grave insult
>>-> in the eyes of the Kremlin.
>
> Frank Kalder wrote:
>
>>>> Karolina Kurkova models the 6.5 million dollar Victoria's Secret Hearts
>>>> On Fire Diamond Fantasy Bra.
>
> NY POST/CINDY ADAMS...
> --HIP-HOP hotshot impresario Irv Gotti, acquitted of money laundering
> just last year, is back in the big-time big money. Driving his Maybach,
>
> carrying continually ringing cells and BlackBerrys, he visited me
> wearing a big-ticket diamond Jacob the Jeweler pendant on a diamond
> chain so heavy he could barely bend his neck to check his
> diamond-loaded Jacob the Jeweler Rolex before telling me: This week he
> begins shooting his VH-1 reality show. "Listen, no matter what I went
> through, I kept Ja Rule, Ashanti, all my acts. I now have a joint
> venture with Universal, the same company that kicked me out when those
> accusations came down. They even gave me back my masters. I sold 20
> million albums. I produced J.Lo's two biggest hits, 'I'm Real,' 13
> weeks on the charts, and 'Ain't It Funny,' 11 weeks. Now I own all my
> stuff and I split with Universal. Doug Morris gave me the deal. He's
> grooming me to be president of Universal. And Tobey Maguire and I
> bonded over poker, so next up I'll produce movies. "I'll be taping this
>
> reality thing - there's no name yet - for six months. I told them it's
> a one-shot deal. I own a piece of it. I'm executive producer, so I OK
> the final cut. They're tracking my success back from the days I mixed
> tapes in my house and sold them for 10 bucks apiece to friends. They'll
>
> also include scenes from Crack House, my two-floor SoHo studio." Crack
> House?? "Yeah, in hip-hop when the beat is good, we say it's crack.
> "Some friends like Jay-Z, Damon Dash, Russell Simmons will probably be
> on it. Hey, Russell saw my canary-yellow diamond chain and said, 'With
> each link, you could feed a village in Africa or . . . you could get a
> lot of [a phrase indicating a kitty cat]." Interesting chat.
> Especially, as I recall, since I never got to ask one question.
>
> Ny Post Liz Smith
>
> --Rumors flew on Friday that Beyonc
