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...former high school wrestling coach, was beloved by members as a "good cop," compared to the enforcer style of the longtime number two leader, former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). But Hastert was badly damaged by questions about how much he had known about former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his contact with pages, and members felt Hastert also handled the aftermath of the revelations clumsily...
...Force One flew to Pensacola, Fla., on Monday for one of the President's final rallies, Snow gave a preview of the language you can expect to hear him using on television as he talks about the coming legislative season, beginning with the breakfast shows on Wednesday. "There's the thing that you do need to know," he said, "which is that the President plans for a very active final two years of his presidency. And there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed that everybody knows need to be addressed. One is winning...
DIED. Joe Niekro, 61, right-handed pitcher whose deadly knuckleball helped him to a career 221 wins in 22 seasons and who, with his knuckleball-hurling brother Phil, famously won more games than any other pair of brothers in major league baseball history; of a brain aneurysm; in Tampa, Fla. In 1976 the longtime Houston Astro hit his only career home run--against Phil, then pitching for the Atlanta Braves...
Highway 50 runs straight as a pool cue from Pueblo, Colo., through 23 miles of rangeland and piņon flats before offering an exit to the scruffy little city of Florence (pop. 3,795). Like Flint, Mich., or Orlando, Fla., Florence is a company town. The industry here is prisoners, and the company is the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Twenty years ago, the people of surrounding Fremont County ponied up $160,000 to buy some open land outside Florence, hoping to entice the bureau to build a prison complex as a way to boost the town's economy. Corrections...
Rudolph is getting his neighbors to teach him their language. He picks it up one phrase at a time. He wrote his mother, who lives in Sarasota, Fla., that "Kyfa ta Kool," which he spelled out phonetically, means "How do you say ...?" Sometimes the other inmates are eager to communicate with Rudolph, other times they are "sulking or buried in some Arabic hell of depression...