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California has, as they say, some issues right now. Its budget deficit could reach $12 billion, its energy costs remain sky-high, and its politicians are still fighting over how to fix the failing public school system. But Governor Gray Davis devoted much of his State of the State address last week to more life-and-death matters. "All four hijacked planes were bound for California," said Davis, dressed in a blue shirt, a red tie and an American-flag lapel pin. "More than 100 fellow Californians paid the ultimate price for our freedom." In memory of those who died...
...supposed to be a week in which George Bush made common cause with the common man, a week of speeches and photo ops to show that the President who whipped the Taliban could also save our jobs and fix our schools. But when a gust of news blew the Enron mess from the business section to the front page, the country saw a tense, cautious President trying his best to distance himself from one of his biggest campaign contributors, the friend he used to call "Kenny Boy." In the Oval Office on Thursday, Bush told reporters he hadn't seen...
...August, he walked out of the shelter in a fit of frustration. His mother agreed to take him in temporarily. Soon afterward, a neighbor said Sanders could rent a 6-ft. by 12-ft. room with the $215 welfare check, if he would also help fix up the place. Elated, he went the next day to the welfare office and got approval. The check took three weeks to arrive, testing the patience of his new landlord. But at last he moved in. He shares a bathroom and a kitchen, but he has his own phone and a TV. "I feel...
Bratt, 38, hits lovely, seductive notes in director Leon Ichaso's ragged symphony of self-destruction. His Pinero shouts savage poetry from rooftops, rages against the ravages of disease and grasps at respect even while reaching for his next fix. Bratt has had four seasons on TV's Law & Order, an impressive turn as a drug kingpin in Traffic and has been game to support Sandra Bullock (Miss Congeniality) and Madonna (The Next Best Thing). But virtually no one realized he had this kind of performance in him. "For the last couple of months, I've been getting...
...November Lutz brought in an outside consultant to help fix the design process. But mainly he has simply let it be known that the designers are now in charge. That approach has worked famously well at newly revived Nissan, where one of CEO Carlos Ghosn's first turnaround maneuvers was to take designers out from under the arm of engineering. "You have to unleash the creativity," says Ghosn. "Otherwise, you are dead...