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Congressman Adam Smith's phones rang so much on Monday that one of his aides called it a "siege." Almost all the calls were about health care, and most of his constituents' opinions were the same. "In my case, it's very one-sided," says Smith, a Washington State Democrat. "It's all been on the anti side...
...pain session with several prostitutes. The pictures were duly splashed across a British tabloid. Mosley sued for invasion of privacy and won, but his moral authority was crippled. "We were within a whisker of reaching a spending agreement in 2008 when Max took the hit," says Adam Parr, who heads the venerable Williams F1 team. "After that, we never managed to get the last piece of the puzzle in place...
...Sundays from now." On March 9, when NASCAR announced its ruling, Petty told the New York Times, "This is one of the saddest days I've ever experienced in the sport." This is a man who knows sadness on the race track: Petty's son Adam was killed during a 2000 NASCAR practice run. (See pictures of 50 years of the Daytona...
...switch? No one at the Motion Picture Academy would give any explanation, though officials acknowledged that it was a decision made by producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, with an O.K. from the Academy...
...Harlem's Gang of Four, along with Percy Sutton - a civil rights activist, lawyer and local power broker, who died Dec. 26 at 89 - and David Dinkins, who served as mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993. The group inherited a tradition passed down from trailblazers like Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whom Rangel unseated in 1970, and together shattered scores of racial barriers, attaining offices once dismissed as off-limits and paving the way for the ascension of black leaders around the country. In the process, they turned Harlem - long the epicenter of African-African culture - into...