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Bush and Winnick claim that they don't recall exactly what was said at the reception. But there is no forgetting the coziness of Global Crossing's co-chairman, Lodwrick Cook, with the Bush family. A director of the elder Bush's presidential library, Cook gave the G.O.P. $325,000 during George W.'s 2000 race and has expanded his ties to Bush's Administration. Sources tell TIME that Cook met with Commerce Secretary Don Evans last June and brought up a bitter legacy of the Clinton years--the $7.2 million fee Global Crossing had to pay for running...
...company's political ties have assured access to other top Bush officials. Cook tells TIME he met with Assistant Defense Secretary John Stenbit last October to ask that Global Crossing be included in contract rebidding to hook up U.S. defense scientists. Global won an earlier bid for the $400 million job, but bureaucratic snafus forced the Pentagon to cancel it, a decision Cook protested to Stenbit...
...their native Australia, the Wiggles are more popular than Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman combined. Anthony Field, Jeff Fatt, Greg Page and Murray Cook are huge stars, millionaires and marketing Midases. Now they have American ankle biters in their sights. They have sold more than 1.5 million videos and CDs in the U.S., and their newest release, Wiggly, Wiggly World, was Amazon.com's best-selling family video even before it was out. The Disney Channel has started playing their songs between shows every morning. And their second U.S. tour begins next week...
Field, 38, started the Wiggles a few years after he left the platinum-selling rock band the Cockroaches in 1988. He, Cook, 41, and Page, 30, recorded a few children's songs for fun while in college together. They were three of just a handful of men studying preschool education, which they chose because teaching toddlers wouldn't require them to stick to a curriculum...
...even if the group never gets to be as big as Barney--with whom, until recently, it toured just to play during intermission--Field says no one in the band will mind. The Wiggles perform more than 300 shows a year and want to keep doing so, even though Cook and Page now have children of their own. "I'm never bored," says Field. "Kids are so uninhibited. I'll do it forever if my body can still wiggle...