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...many mompreneurs, the key attraction is being their own boss. Former New York City television producer Dana Lowey Luttway anointed her son Daniel Henri "the king of spit-up" but was inspired by his daily rejections to create her first invention: the ParentSmock, a cotton bib made for parents, with cute expressions including DAD'S SPIT'N IMAGE, BURP ME, I'M YOURS and ALL-STAR DRIBBLER...
...shut the big states out. As it turns out, the Bush-McCain battle will be decided by the votes of California, New York, Ohio, Georgia, Massachusetts and perhaps even Florida, Texas and the cotton South as well. And if those contests still haven't decided matters, the battle will move on to Illinois and Pennsylvania. Moreover, those states provide a mix of rules--some allow only Republicans to be counted; some open the door to Independents; some include Democrats. By the end of the contest, just about every constituency will have a voice...
More troublesome, the Czech President is elected by members of parliament. MILOS ZEMAN, head of the Social Democrats, and VACLAV KLAUS, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that...
...More troublesome, the Czech president is elected by members of parliament. Milos Zeman, head of the Social Democrats, and Vaclav Klaus, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that...
...welfare, public schools, the juvenile-justice system and "frivolous" civil lawsuits. He chose them carefully--all were popular in Texas--but getting them done was no sure thing. To improve his odds, he cultivated relationships with the two Democrats who could make him a success--Laney, a West Texas cotton farmer who controls the house; and Bob Bullock, the profane, driven, endlessly colorful Lieutenant Governor who ran the senate and was the most powerful pol in Texas until shortly before he died last year. The three men would meet for breakfast every Wednesday--first at the Governor's mansion...