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...politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go." And guess who usually wins that tug-of-war? (Actually, it's neither the voters nor the politician; it's the consultant who massages the data and advises, "Be careful, Mr. President. Try something bite-size.") So it has been fun to watch Young Bush fly in the face of the mingy, tactical, peripheral politics of recent years--to run a very different sort of presidency from Old Bush or Bill Clinton, to propose wildly ambitious and blatantly ideological and extremely risky policies, to "overload...
...winter drags on, specialty apples will get harder to find in most stores, so if you want to try one, act soon. You may not get another bite at the apple this season...
...naturalism. That's the sort of new work we should be doing." Boyd plans to introduce a regular summer festival of new work to run alongside productions of Shakespeare. "And we're looking for modern classics exactly like Midnight's Children. If Salman Rushdie wants to return, I'd bite his arm off!" The author might be tempted. Although he has plans for another novel next, Rushdie says he's enjoying the rehearsal process so much, he may write an original play sometime in the future. And, if new discussions for a movie of Midnight's Children bear fruit - Rushdie...
...reportedly gives him 10% of Foxwoods' net income until 2018. Foxwoods' gross revenue is more than $1 billion a year. Assuming no downturn in the casino's fortunes, TIME estimates, Lim and his family will walk away with $1 billion over the life of the agreement. The U.S. tax bite? As a foreign investor, Lim will pay at a steeply discounted rate--below that levied on an American family earning less than $20,000 a year...
...Jackson arrived last week at a courthouse in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he is being sued for $21 million by a concert promoter who contends that the singer broke his contract by canceling two shows. Jackson explained that his bandaged foot was the result of a spider bite--but not one inflicted by one of his pet tarantulas. Possibly still woozy from the experience, he made faces and hand gestures on the stand, though he was lucid enough to allege that it was the promoter, Marcel Avram, who called off the concerts. The following day, Jackson failed to show...