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Warner brought the same long view to his state's fiscal problems. He slashed spending for everything but education, cutting $6 billion in costs, eliminating 3,000 state jobs and even shutting down driver's-license offices one day a week. That gave him credibility as a fiscal conservative, which became important when he discovered that spending cuts were not enough to put the state on sound financial footing for the rest of the decade. Given his one-term limit, it would have been tempting for Warner to simply paper over the problem and pass it on to his successor...
...crazy” comes over, rambling loudly. The cop retorts with a faux-hostile “Are you talkin’ to me?” from Taxi Driver before chatting...
...Here's what Mr. Mellow had to say after a recent race about fellow NASCAR driver Greg Biffle: "That guy is an idiot ... right now if he came over here I'm afraid I'd have to strangle him." Stewart had just finished a close second to Jeff Gordon, ahead of Jimmie Johnson, on the half-mile, bumper-to-bumper, fun-house oval at Martinsville, Va. Biffle, about to get lapped on a restart, had played chicken with him, nearly causing a crash. The fact is, Stewart's mouth doesn't have a brake. He is incapable of being anything...
...Stewart can't control is his appetite for a race. Any race. He has driven go-karts, three-quarter midgets, full midgets, Grand Am, winged and unwinged sprint cars, trucks, Indy cars. He still drives in races that offer a $1,000 first prize. "I'm a race-car driver," says Stewart. "That's what I do." Just wait until he joins the volunteer fire department back home in Indiana...
...When the cars pull up to me, the Porsches and the Bentleys and all that, I just sort of say, 'Well, that's nice, but for what this costs I could buy 10 of those.'" JON SPALLINO, Californian construction executive and the driver of a Honda FCX, an electric car powered by hydrogen-fuel cells. He is leasing the experimental vehicle, worth $1 million, from Honda for $500 a month...