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Oilman awarded Eisenhower scholarship

JAKARTA: Energy company PT Bakrie Niagatama president director Rahmad Pribadi has been awarded a prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship (EF), an honor that entitles him to travel throughout the United States and learn about the country's powerful oil industry.

Pribadi was selected after an extremely competitive screening at which he proved his leadership and success in his professional field, said the Indonesian trustee of the EF in a press release.

In the U.S., Pribadi will be joined by others representing 24 countries from various fields including journalism, academia, the arts and the environment.

Pribadi said that he will use the opportunity to strengthen the relationship between Indonesia and the superpower.

"I will also use this opportunity to enhance my knowledge and ability in the energy sector," he said.

On earlier occasions, Indonesia received at least one fellowship a year. EF alumni include late Muslim scholar Nurcholish Madjid, Trade Minister Marie Elka Pangestu and House Speaker Agung Laksono.

An eight-week fellowship that encompasses eight to 10 cities and 60 and 80 professional appointments, the EF is granted to honor President Dwight D. Eishenhower and the organization is based in Philadelphia. -- JP

;AP; ANPA ..r.. US-People-Sticky Fingaz Rapper-Actor Sticky Fingaz arrested on gun charge JP/24/GUESS

Rapper-Actor Sticky Fingaz arrested on gun charge

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NEW YORK: Sticky Fingaz, the rapper turned actor, has been arrested on a charge that he left an unlicensed handgun in a Manhattan hotel room, police said.

The performer, whose real name is Kirk Jones, surrendered to police Tuesday morning. He was in custody that evening and was awaiting arraignment on one count of criminal weapon possession. Police said Jones checked out of the Flatotel, a Manhattan luxury hotel, Monday night.

Hotel staff found a 9mm pistol in the room and called police. Jones, who was a member of the rap group Onyx, was later identified as the room's last occupant.

Jones, 35, wasn't licensed to carry the weapon, said police Detective Kevin Czartoryski.

The actor's agent, Michael Greenwald, didn't immediately return a phone message.

Jones was featured in the 2004 movie Flight of the Phoenix. He appears in the FX TV series Over There, about American soldiers in Iraq. He plays a character named Smoke who enlists in the Army to avoid a prison sentence.

A publicist for the FX networks said he was unaware of the arrest and referred calls to Jones' manager, Brian Wilkins, who said he had no information about the incident. --AP

GetAP 1.00 -- OCT 19, 2005 22:55:42

;AP; ANPA ..r.. US-People-Albright U.S. former secretary of state Albright makes appearance on 'Gilmore JP/24/GUESS

Albright makes appearance on 'Gilmore Girls' show

NEW YORK: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will make a guest appearance on the Oct. 25 episode of the WB TV network's show Gilmore Girls.

"I am a big fan of Gilmore Girls and I had a great time," Albright said in a statement. "It was an opportunity to do something different for a quick minute, and I learned how hard it is to memorize those lines."

Albright, secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, filmed a scene with Alexis Bledel, who plays Rory Gilmore. The episode involves the ongoing estrangement between Rory and her mother, Lorelai Gilmore, played by Lauren Graham.

Norman Mailer and Carole King also have appeared on the show. Mailer appeared as himself, and King played the owner of the town's music store in two episodes.

Still, Albright left quite an impression on the WB set.

"If you think she seems brilliant and sassy strutting around the Middle East, you should try talking to her in person," Gilmore Girls executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino said in a statement. "We are very honored, very lucky, and soooo not worthy." --AP

--- On the Net: http://www.thewb.com/Shows

GetAP 1.00 -- OCT 19, 2005 19:55:05

;AP; ANPA ..r.. US-Warren Buffett Multimillion-dollar deal announced for book about Warren Buffett JP/20/GUESS

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Multimillion-dollar deal for Buffet

NEW YORK: A bidding war for an authorized biography of the "ideas" of billionaire Warren Buffett has been won by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc.

Tentatively titled The Snowball: How Warren Buffett Collected Friends, Wisdom and Wealth, the book is scheduled to come out in 2008. Several publishers were interested and a representative close to the deal said it was worth more than US$7 million, although not as much as the reported $10 million to $12 million for former President Clinton's My Life.

Former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch reportedly got $7.1 million for his best seller, Jack: Straight From the Gut.

The Snowball will be written by Alice Schroeder, a former insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley, where she met Buffett. This marks the first time a book will be written with his cooperation, but the contract was negotiated with Schroeder.

According to a statement issued on Wednesday by Dell, the book will focus on Buffett's business strategies. It will be based on the "thousands of hours" Schroeder spent with Buffett and on "unprecedented access to his files, friends and associates."

The 75-year-old Buffett is considered of special interest both for his personal wealth, estimated by Forbes magazine at $40 billion, and his folksy style.

Buffett is known as the man who built a 1956 partnership of four relatives and three close friends into a holding company worth about $100 billion. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. owns insurance, soft drink, candy, furniture, restaurant and carpet firms.

Yet Buffett is also known to wear sweat pants and sweat shirts in his spare time. He is a longtime fan of hamburgers, french fries and Cherry Cokes, and enjoys bridge and playing the ukulele. --AP

GetAP 1.00 -- OCT 20, 2005 06:38:27