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...another Florida case, restaurateur Dennis Max, following one extramarital fling, signed an agreement in which he promised that if he strayed again and caused a breakup, his wife Patti would get $50,000 for every year they had been together, plus all their property. His wife claims he later had a fling with a prostitute, and that he owes her $5 million. Joel Weissman, the attorney who represents both Florida wives, argues that such clauses are a justifiable way to make spouses pay for violating their marriage vows. "Why not put in a provision that says if I am emotionally...
...Dolly Parton's second fling with bluegrass follows on the clog heels of last year's excellent "The Grass Is Blue," and if it falls a bit short of its predecessor's headlong exhilaration, it still delivers a good helping of the right stuff. Chief among its virtues is the killer band that Parton has mostly retained from the first album, especially the remarkable Jerry Douglas on dobro and Stuart Duncan on fiddle. The ease with which these young veterans propel winners such as "Seven Bridges Road" carries over to and elevates less inspiring selections like Collective Soul's "Shine...
...Overall, the prospects for the McCain cause are a little brighter this time around. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle are polling the folks at home and finding that they remember their spring fling with the "Straight Talk Express," and that the 2000 election only reminded them how much the system can make them wince. And there's always the selfish side - all those rubber-chicken fund-raisers can really wear a lawmaker out, and some of them would actually rather be in Washington making better laws...
...bored journalists fling a few half-hearted questions, but Sharpton, his eyes scanning the crowd for more TV opportunities, quickly tires and eases away...
...much damage, really? The losers, their minds reverberating with their own dire rhetoric, will work themselves into a state. They will want to fling themselves off cliffs, like the Japanese on Okinawa when the Americans arrived in 1945. That's the human nature of politics. When Rudolph Giuliani first ran for mayor of New York City, the editorial board of The New York Times sounded as if Hitler himself aspired to City Hall. In the fullness of time, the Times came to concede that in many respects, Giuliani proved to be an excellent mayor...