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Islands “Return to the Sea” (Equator) 4 Stars Image changes are hard to pull off. Ask Gary Coleman, or JC Chasez—once you’re classified by your audience, abandoning your niche can be a perilous career move. While perhaps not as disposable as either of the aforementioned entertainers, Montreal’s The Unicorns were celebrated as much for their kitsch as their music on 2003’s “Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?” Songs like...
...Republicans outside the White House are indeed agitating for new blood. One Republican official said that Bush needs "a heavyweight for outreach to the Hill" and is considering "some senior folks to get some rudders back," but added that "they won't go outside the family." And Sen. Norman Coleman (R-Minn.), usually considered close to the White House, went public this week with a view that has been whispered among Republican operatives, telling The Associated Press Tuesday that he has "some concerns about the team that's around the President," and that the staff should be reexamined...
...Still, people close to the President said he would not make any major changes in response to what they consider, as McClellan also described it today, "inside-Washington babble." Friends of the President said that if Coleman wanted his advice to be considered, he should have given it to Bush privately. (A Coleman aide said the office had no further comment.) And several Republican officials said that if any change were made, it would be the addition of a wise man often referred to as "a David Gergen figure" rather than the departure (forced or otherwise) of any key staff...
...Yellow Oval room with about two dozen Republican House members to talk about the legislative agenda. Those meetings, not surprisingly, became fodder for further speculation. Asked if the first group of lawmakers that came to the White House on Wednesday had raised the type of concerns that Coleman had, Scott McClellan answered sharply, "No, of course...
...congressional watchdogs found over 27,000 defense contractors doing business with the Pentagon that owed $3 billion in back taxes. Since that report in 2004, the Pentagon and other federal agencies have increased the amount of back taxes recovered from contractors by over 600%, according to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, chairman of the Investigations Subcommittee. A GSA spokesman says his agency "takes the issue of unpaid contractor taxes very seriously and all federal contractors should be held to high standards." He said GSA is working with the IRS to improve the crosschecking of contractor records with tax information...