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...tell a version of the same story about the frictionless ease of his personality. Longtime friend and campaign manager Don Evans remembers the grace with which Bush gave away a box of tools he was selling to a man who was eyeing them but clearly didn't have the dough. Texas Rangers fans recall the effortless charm of the team owner who sat in the regular seats, and even John McCain, Bush's nemesis in the primaries, marvels at the seductive charisma he encountered in their first postprimary meeting. Jim Ferguson, one of Bush's admen, is convinced: "If people...
...Paula Marshall-Chapman, 47, CEO of the Bama Companies, a $140 million Tulsa, Okla., frozen-dough-and-pie concern that started in her grandmother's kitchen in 1927, the road to success has been studded with familial potholes. When Marshall-Chapman took over from her father in 1984, her two brothers were furious that they would not be involved in running the show. The business was changed from a corporation to a partnership, with Marshall-Chapman named general partner. Her parents Lilah and Paul Marshall took their equity out of the business to live on. The structure of the general...
...whip Tom DeLay, the loudest congressional opponent of shining a light on 527 groups, is tied to a more opaque one called the Republican Majority Issues Coalition, which has vowed to spend up to $25 million supporting the G.O.P. in the upcoming election--but won't say where the dough is being raised or exactly how it will be spent...
...camera sessions) 19. Eventual hole in the wall? 20. Toots of restaurant fame 23. Ankle bones 27. Osama bin __, who has been linked to the Philippines' Moro Islamic Liberation Front 29. The Library of Congress has opened a show dedicated to her 33. D.C.'s Pennsylvania, for one 34. Dough raiser 36. www.time.com e.g. 37. Intel's CEO, who's downplayed the impact of a Microsoft split 39. Hero of the NBA championship 41. Siouan-speaking tribesmen 43. Olympus Mountains peak 44. Ohio representative Tony, who is seeking a congressional apology for slavery 47. Succumb to the throwing yips...
...many of Gore's slogans, doesn't roll off the tongue as well as it could. But it plays to the strengths of the sort-of incumbent. Gore will highlight, again and again, the booming economy and skyrocketing surpluses and insist he's got wiser ways to spend the dough than Bush. Safer ways to save Social Security and Medicare. A better, targeted tax cut - targeted being the operative word, as opposed to Bush insistence on an across-the-board that helps rich folks too - which Gore upped to $500 billion after hearing about extra surplus dough coming down...