Word: bucks
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Vosberg is lucky he doesn't have Buck Showalter for a manager. The manager of the New York Yankees and this year's AL team feels so strongly about the players' obligations to the national pastime that he gave the All-Stars a little pregame speech he calls, "Ask Not What Baseball Can Do for You, Ask What You Can Do for Baseball." Apparently, Frank Thomas of the White Sox wasn't listening. The slugging first baseman left the All-Star Game after the fourth inning to catch a plane back to Chicago for a game the next night. Granted...
When attorney Jack Bryant and his wife began scouting the suburbs around Austin, Texas, in 1988, they wanted the best schools for their two sons. Eventually, they settled in Round Rock, a predominantly white, professional town whose system, Bryant says, "gave us the best bang for our buck." But in Bryant's view, that changed two years ago after Christian conservatives gained control of the school board and tied up meetings with debates over banning Maya Angelou's memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which some members described as pornographic. A dismayed Bryant convened a group of parents...
...JUST AS WELL SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH HASN'T given up his day job. His brief life as an author has been one setback after another. First he saw his $4.5 million advance drop to one buck to avoid the appearance of impropriety, though his agent is still due her $675,000 commission from his royalties. And now, thanks to last week's warning from the House ethics committee,he has to pay for the book tour out of his own pocket...
...really approachable. But when I saw him like this ... there's a sweetness that comes out." When the actor had heard Grazer was remaking a comedy classic, he called and pitched himself doing the lead-but with the twist of being extremely obese instead of just buck-toothed. "He was so passionate, I told him we'd do it right then," says Grazer. Give up? It's EDDIE MURPHY updating Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor...
...Semel were not unhappy to see Fuchs -- the one company official assigned to respond publicly to Dole's attack -- aking all the corporate heat. When Robert Friedman, head of advertising and publicity for Warner Bros. films, was asked for a comment on Dole's speech, he interestingly passed the buck. "It's not a movie issue," he said. "It's more a music issue...