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...Dick Cheney talked Friday like he was off to get his teeth cleaned. "I look on this as an insurance policy," he said, in announcing he would visit George Washington Hospital Saturday for more tests on his crotchety heart - and the likely subsequent implantation of a pacemaker. It is, he said, a "routine but precautionary step that my record calls...
...Today they kibitz freely about each other's projects, but friction is minimized because each supplies a different emphasis to the partnership. "Lear can put words in your mouth like nobody else," says Dick Van Dyke, who has starred in Yorkin and Lear efforts for both TV and movies. "Yorkin, as a director, is the ideal interpreter of Lear's writing." Lear is more preoccupied with creative matters. Yorkin, with more business acumen, is by his own admission "the heavy in financial deals...
...Administration wasn't interested. For the past six months, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rarely missed a chance to say what a huge mistake government controls of California energy costs would be. But the argument has been slapping up against an obvious political problem: Bush's free-market principles mirror the financial interests of his backers in the energy industry--top executives who are cashing in stock options for tens and hundreds of millions of dollars while their corporate profits are tripling. "The consequence of the inaction has been a massive transfer of wealth from the ordinary citizens...
...spokesman for Burton said Wednesday that no investigation or hearings are planned. And the White House is refusing, for the most part, to cooperate with a General Accounting Office investigation, requested by Democrats, of the operations of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. In fact, much tongue-clucking has ensued over at the White House. "We understand that there have been past, partisan battles over investigations, but these were battles and investigations this president and this administration were not involved in - this president was off in Texas being governor," Bush aide Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post...
...This week one of the twin pioneers of this pop renaissance releases an eagerly-awaited second album. Air's 10,000 Hz Legend is a sprawling baroque extravaganza. In 60 minutes of multifaceted music, it sparkles with unlikely references: Pink Floyd, cult sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick, Eric Satie, White Album-era Beatles, German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk and the Beach Boys are all in there somewhere. But there's also impeccably modern production and the latest computer technology. Air transcends its influences to create something dazzlingly unique. The duo from Versailles - a well-off suburb west of Paris...