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When El Jahmi was briefly furloughed from prison in 2004, Bush hailed his release as a sign of change in Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi. For $1,200, design devotees can hear iPod designer Jonathan Ive, author Dave Eggers, and fashion and furniture designer Isaac Mizrahi, among others. Schwarzenegger has gone to great lengths to do so, appearing at a black rodeo and meeting with publishers of African American newspapers.Separate from the clergy, Schwarzenegger has sought to reach African American voters by advertising in black-owned publications. raised $532 million Monday, at the top of the range the company expected.That might set a good tone for Cinemark’s rival, AMC Entertainment Inc., which hopes to raise $800 million in a stock sale next month.The stock offerings come ahead of what’s expected to be a strong summer film schedule, thanks to such releases as Sony Corp.’s “Spider-Man 3″ and Walt Disney Co.’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.”Box-office sales have risen 6.4% to $2.47 billion this year and attendance is up 4%, according to box-office tracker Media by Numbers.”This is going to be a great summer for theater owners,” said David Bank, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.Cinemark and AMC were taken private in separate deals in 2004 amid a box-office slump. The Paris-based company said it would beat its forecast for 2005 earnings, excluding some costs, of at least 1.8 billion euros.All five of Vivendi’s units, including pay-TV company Canal Plus and Vivendi Universal Games, “remain profitable in the second half,” Chief Executive Jean-Bernard Levy said.Vivendi’s wireless unit SFR added clients in the expanding French mobile-phone market, while the music and game units cut costs by eliminating jobs.Vivendi already has reported that sales in the quarter rose 8%, helped by new albums from artists including rapper 50 Cent, more mobile-phone clients and players of the World of Warcraft online computer game.Vivendi is focusing on music, mobile-phone services and games after Chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou sold assets valued at 22 billion euros to cut debt and restore the company to profitability.Fourtou replaced Jean-Marie Messier as chief executive in 2002 Fourtou passed the CEO job to Levy in April.. Souter’s hometown of Weare rejected a proposal to seize his 200-year-old farmhouse so that it could be turned into an inn that would be named the Lost Liberty Hotel.The vote was prompted by activists angered by the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision last year in a property rights case from Connecticut. Legislation moving up the primary from June suddenly is on the Capitol fast track.