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...party message that Cheney's younger daughter Mary is openly and comfortably gay. But if you know any longtime Westerners, some of Cheney's reserve is not so mysterious. He was born in Lincoln, Neb., and he was just 13 when his father, a U.S. government soil-conservation agent, moved the family to Casper, a Wyoming oil town with sagebrush edges. At Casper's Natrona County High School he met his future wife Lynne. He was co-captain of the football team and president of the senior class. She was an academic star and, with some campaigning help from...
Bush, however, sees it all differently. It was no picnic being the son of the chairman of the Republican National Committee during Watergate, or running for Congress in 1978 and having to spend all his time denying that his father was some sinister agent of the Eastern establishment. "It's a mixed blessing," he says. "Some folks will say, there's George and Barbara's son, he must be interesting, let me listen. Others may say, he's not done anything in his life, just running on his daddy's name." Wead's report spelled out the dilemma that...
...supporting his primary opponent, Jim Reese, in hopes of weakening the Bush family hold on Texas. Though W. survived the primary, Democrat Kent Hance was far tougher, painting the son as a carpetbagger funded by East Coast fat cats and happily fueling constituents' concerns about the father as an agent of all those One World Government forces, such as the U.N. and the Trilateral Commission...
...America we know GARY HOUSTON as "Irate Customer" from Fargo or perhaps "Government Agent in Bar" from Hoffa. Or we don't. But in Russia the Chicago-based character actor is nothing less than the new Lee Marvin. As "American" in the recently released Brother II--Russia's biggest domestically produced box-office hit this year (and sequel to the summer 1997 hit Brother)--Houston plays a corrupt ice hockey agent/Mob boss who embodies all the evils of the capitalist Red, White and Blue. "News to me," says Houston of his megahuge status in Murmansk. "I haven't seen...
...relationship with F.D.R. was typical. He first opposed the Democrat, then supported him (partly owing to F.D.R.'s elaborate and cynical courtship). But when the New Deal began to cut against big financial interests, Hearst accused Roosevelt of being a communist agent. Throughout his career, Hearst bent his media outlets' coverage to suit his political or financial ends...