Word: barone
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...similar story across the river in Indiana's conservative Ninth District, where former Congressman Baron Hill campaigned on a solidly Democratic platform - against a gay marriage amendment, against the war, and for expanded health care and increasing the minimum wage - and defeated the incumbent, hard-right social conservative Mike Sodrel...
Despite the unification of father and children, Hunt never felt a close connection with the oil baron, who was an emotionally distant and demanding lothario. However, it was her father who first introduced her to politics. H.L. Hunt espoused a doctrine of rabid anti-communism. He penned a utopian novel in which wealth dictated voting privileges, and he pressed his daughters into the service of his anti-communist crusade. “Making speeches with my father was the closest thing to a meaningful relationship we ever had,” the younger Hunt writes...
However, Hunt’s fortunes improved at the expense of her father’s first wife, who died after conceiving six children with the oil baron. Two years later, Ray married H.L. Hunt, 29 years her elder, and Swanee Wright became Swanee Hunt. Her family moved into a Dallas replica of George Washington’s Virginia mansion, Mt. Vernon...
High five! Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat has won praise--and a movie deal for another of his personas. He begins filming as gay Austrian fashionista Bruno next year...
...Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie, “Borat: Cultural Learning of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” has been unrepentantly marketed as a controversy...