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...though, the changes were not enough to persuade House GOP members - only 37% of whom voted for the measure, compared with 60% of Democrats - and the bill failed, sending the stock market into a tailspin. "The calls to our office before that vote were universal nos," says Representative Michael Conaway, a Texas Republican, one of 26 Republicans who switched his vote. "After the vote, I started getting calls from constituents saying, 'Oh my God, that was the wrong vote; I thought you were voting yes' - particularly from small businesses and people who lost a lot in retirement savings...
...substance-abusing guests checked into an actual rehab facility under the care of Loveline's Dr. Drew Pinsky. As trashy as its concept was, Rehab's first season was surprisingly earnest, decent and, well, sober, especially as it chronicled the struggle and near breakdowns of former Taxi star Jeff Conaway. Being treated simply as people rather than as stars (or pseudo stars) seemed for some like the first step to sobriety. Celebrity Rehab was as much rehab from celebrity as it was rehab for celebrities...
That's where Sam Bowden, 34, and Byron Conaway, 30, come in. The former undercover narcotics detectives were assigned to the state's attorney's office full time in September 2004. Since then they have been assigned to serve more than 300 summonses and body attachments (special incarceration warrants for witnesses who don't want to be found). It can be a maddening chase at times. Wearing baggy street clothes with Kevlar vests underneath, the two troll the city's grim row houses looking for witnesses who are, as often as not, "in the game" themselves, part of the same...
That promise is too distant for the very present danger Alvin Chalmers faces. His pleading with detectives Conaway and Bowden in the car on the way to central booking has fallen on deaf ears, so Chalmers takes a new tack, rehearsing what he will probably say on the stand. "I was high when it happened," he says over and over. "I don't remember anything...
...Mart was not amused by Hood's report, but Conaway showed some bravado in the face of the onslaught: he refused to interrupt his vacation to respond to Hood's salvo. Said K Mart spokeswoman Lori McTavish: "We're confident we have enough resources and enough lines of credit to get through. We're implementing a major change in the company's operations and culture." Other analysts were surprised only by the reaction to Hood's report, which recommended that investors sell the stock. They did, driving it to a 30-year low of $3.89 before it recovered. "This report...