Then he's told by a Hollywood producer who wants to buy the screenplay that it will never be made unless he changes the gender of the dying character.

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He never asked for advice about the name changes, although he mentioned that he admired William Jefferson Clinton because the American president, like Willy, had come from a poor part of a big country.

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Until that changes - and it may never - he will never earn the cult hero status that Tim had.

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Clinton is likely to weigh in heavily against the Senate's Medicare proposals, since he has said that income-based premium hikes and age eligibility changes were never intended to be part of deal.

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Republicans speak dismissively of such pledges, saying that in earlier negotiations, the president has never been willing to close a deal with the type of changes he often says he will accept.

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He enters by one door, exits by another, changes his cars daily, never makes appointments on a telephone, never is predictable, will show up--he only uses people that are related to him that he can trust.

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"I would never support any changes to Medicare that would hurt seniors like my mother, " he said.

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One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.

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