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...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 get a glimpse of what they would see if they actually met him, they will elect him." To Mark McKinnon, Bush's top media adviser, the Bush personality is magic, "like lightning in a bottle...
Park, Lord and screenwriter Karey Kirkpatrick stocked Chicken Run with a cross section of Brit types: Bunty (Imelda Staunton) is bossy; silly Babs (Jane Horrocks, who played Bubble on Ab Fab) is forever knitting--when she gets morose, she knits a noose. Mac (Lynn Ferguson) is the nearsighted soul of Scottish ingenuity. Fowler (Benjamin Whitrow), a crusty veteran of the RAF, says Yanks can't be trusted: "always late for every war." The hens' lines to the outside world are Nick (Timothy Spall) and Fetcher (Phil Daniels), two music-hall Cockney rats--larcenists with a soft streak...
...costs any more. HMO enrollment is slowing; medicare reimbursements are too low; and hospitals and doctors are fighting back against deep fee discounts--in some cases dropping out of networks altogether. More people are opting for flexible plans, choosing preferred-provider organizations over HMOs (see sidebar). Says Tom Ferguson, a health-care consultant at William M. Mercer: "There's less incentive for providers to ration care...
...disbelief because it didn't seem possible that the Crimson could lose that game. Harvard trailed 2-0 heading into the third period, and Big Green netminder Amy Ferguson made 25 saves in the first 40 minutes. But the Crimson came back, getting on the board with goals from wingers Tammy Shewchuk and Kalen Ingram to tie the game with less than seven seconds in regulation. Harvard appeared to be the hot team going into the extra period...
Charles D. Ferguson, a physicist, is director of the Nuclear Policy Project at the Federation of American Scientists...