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...Late Bloomer On a personal level, Cheney was not always a bull-by-the-horns guy. After Cheney graduated from high school, Tom Stroock, a local oilman who was impressed by the young man, arranged his entrance and full scholarship to Yale. After four semesters, Cheney's grades were so bad, the university asked him to leave. David Nicholas, who has known Cheney since junior high school and who went to Harvard, thinks part of the problem was that the Casper schools had not prepared the boys for Ivy League academics. "We were competing with kids who went to Andover...
...deaths in the war. Part of the problem was that in the beginning, Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. Army general who ran the war, underestimated the Scud. After all, the crude, 40-ft. Soviet-designed missile, which is in the arsenals of some 25 nations, has a bull's-eye a mile across. Schwarzkopf called it a "mosquito" that was "clumsy and obsolete." He resisted sending commandos into Iraq to hunt down the Scuds...
...POKER PLAYER. Say what you will about Lyle Berman--and people have called him a lot of things: a pit bull, an intimidator, a fearsome competitor--but no one has ever accused him of modesty. Of his casino-development company, Lakes Entertainment Inc., Berman once told reporters, "We're the most successful company in Indian gaming." Because of the secrecy surrounding gambling on Indian reservations, it's impossible to know whether that's true. But Berman has clearly done quite nicely since he began developing and managing Indian casinos more than a decade ago. Among his real estate holdings...
...distracting crowd. Almodovar disagrees. "I live as closely as possible to the way I've always lived," he says, but he acknowledges that this is not easy. The character in Talk to Her he identifies with is not the bustling Benigno but Lydia, the bullfighter: "The relationship between the bull and the matador--it's full of intuitions. Each knows how the other feels; it is very mysterious. A director is similarly isolated, surrounded by a crowd in the middle of an arena. Nobody knows what's happening between him and the movie he's making...
PLEADED GUILTY. PRINCESS ANNE, 52, of England; to violating Britain's Dangerous Dogs Act by allowing her bull terrier, Dotty, to run loose and bite two young children in Windsor Great Park; in Slough, England. The first modern royal convicted of a criminal offense, she was fined $785 and ordered to pay $393 in compensation...