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...chamber known for its self-impressed, vacuum-packed politicians, the avuncular Hastert has some natural advantages. Raised in northern Illinois, where he grew up on a farm, he's lived virtually all of his 59 years in his sprawling commuter district west of Chicago, which also includes Ronald Reagan's hometown. Heavyset and rumpled, Hastert looks a little like comedian Drew Carey. In public his staff addresses him as Mr. Speaker, but in private he prefers that they simply call him Denny. He shuns the Beltway talk-show-and-cocktail circuit and, at the end of the week, usually catches...
...economy, like pass a capital-gains tax cut. "We want to make sure the economy is getting better so people can see it by next summer at the latest," Hastert told the President, evidently concerned about next autumn's midterm elections, when the G.O.P. could lose control of the chamber. The Speaker added that the House G.O.P. would offer up its own emergency round of tax cuts--with or without White House backing. "Fine," Bush said, feigning enthusiasm. Privately, the President is worried that a Hastert plan, if passed, could dunk the budget in red ink by 2004, when...
After almost three years as House Speaker, Denny Hastert has become someone even Presidents would prefer not to cross. He runs the only chamber of Congress that Bush can count on, and Hastert knows it. "A lot of the heavy lifting is going to have to come out of the House," Hastert told TIME. In the beginning, Bush took the G.O.P.-controlled House for granted and focused his attention on the troublesome, evenly split Senate, where his party clung to power by dint of Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote. But once Democrats took control of the upper chamber, Bush...
...past projects with American rapper RZA and British musicians Goldie, Tricky and Thom Yorke. The album was written mostly while she was in Denmark (which controlled Iceland until the mid-20th century), shooting the 2000 film Dancer in the Dark and feeling homesick. "My album is sort of chamber music for this century," she says, scratching a mosquito bite on her arm. "After traveling so much, I realize how gorgeous the Internet is, bringing the home together again. So I'm looking back on a living room in the '50s where the whole family is, but it's modern...
...print. While that's not quite John Grisham territory, Franzen has so far made more than a million dollars. This could be another reason why he's feeling optimistic about the literary novel these days. He may be right that serious fiction has not gone the elitist route of chamber music. But what happens to The Corrections in the marketplace is going to tell us just how big a sound it can still make...