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...once would have treated as an unmissable cinematic moment - a pairing of two of the greatest actors of their generation - is instead being greeted around town with a shrug. "It's like Ali and Frazier are about to fight," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracking firm Media By Numbers. "And people are weirdly indifferent...
...Timmons is the chairman emeritus of Timmons and Company, a small but influential lobbying firm he founded in 1975 shortly after leaving the White House. According to Senate records, he registered to lobby in 2008 for a wide range of companies and trade groups, including the American Petroleum Institute, the American Medical Association, Chrysler, Freddie Mac, Visa USA and Anheuser-Busch...
...pretend to know whether more people will see Palin as nervous and unready or refreshing and outsiderish (or see Gibson as firm or contemptuous). But either way, it was definitely a different interview tonally than you would have gotten from, as she said, someone with a "big, fat r?sum?...
...shared experiences of class and education. One sign of the narrowness of Cameron's natural world: his wife Samantha, although the daughter of a baronet, is widely credited with being her husband's conduit to a more plural society. She's the creative director of stationer and luxury-goods firm Smythson's and, says one of Cameron's close colleagues, "She's very down to earth. She's mildly bohemian. She's quite liberal. She has an eclectic bunch of friends, the sorts of people David wouldn't have met without her, and she humanizes...
...even its dullest pupils, Cameron seems never to have doubted that he was destined for great things. "He came to Oxford equipped with a much more complete road map of what he wanted to do," says Guy Spier, who also attended Sinclair's tutorials and now runs an investment firm in New York. He remembers Cameron as an outstanding student: "We were doing our best to grasp basic economic concepts. David - there was nobody else who came even close. He would be integrating them with the way the British political system is put together. He could have lectured...