Former talk show host and "Body of War" co-director Phil Donahue was also on hand.

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Mr Chou has hired Horace Luke, until 2006 a rising star at Microsoft and the creative director of Windows Mobile, the hand-held version of the firm's flagship operating system.

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Like Meirelles, "Last Stop 174" director Bruno Barreto also tried his hand at English-language productions after making a name for himself in Brazil.

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Before anybody was allowed to hand over typewritten copy to the type house, somebody -- usually the art director -- had to spec it.

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The usefulness of the e-mails may also strengthen the hand of those who, like Sir Ken Macdonald, formerly Director of Public Prosecutions, want Britain to admit domestic intercept evidence in court, as many countries do.

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So I am pleased that Melody Barnes, one of the most respected policy experts in America, will be serving as director of my Domestic Policy Council--and that she will be working hand-in-hand with my economic policy team to chart a course to economic recovery.

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Since he graduated from Oxford in 1977, he has been a painter, an arts editor for British Vogue, an architect, a writer, a curator for, among other institutions, the Metropolitan Museum, a creative right hand to the photographer Mario Testino and an award-winning scenographer, costumer and, now, director.

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