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...idea of an American chain restaurant trying to position itself as the official sandwich of an anti-U.S. trade crusade may seem somewhat treasonable, but the logic of globalization suggests that within a generation, corporations and products may lose their "national" identity. Nobody in Europe thinks of Fords as American cars, quite simply because they've been made in local plants, according to designs tailored for European markets, for more than half a century. And if all goes according to plan, 10 or 20 years from now an anti-American mob may charge right by a McDonald's without...
...matter how Unbreakable does at the box office, Shyamalan has become a Hollywood player. Spielberg and George Lucas have had discussions with him about writing the next installment of the Indiana Jones series. "Just to be a part of that team, to be a fourth wheel along with Harrison [Ford], would be a very cool thing," says Shyamalan...
...veteran of five transitions himself (including the tricky Nixon-Ford one), Cheney also bemoaned with a lip-curl the "admittedly unusual circumstances" that had wasted three weeks of the normal 10-week turnaround time. "A transition has a direct bearing on the quality of administration that follows it," he said. "Whatever the vice president's decision, that does not change our obligation...
...gutting it and replacing ancient timbers with steel and concrete. To much public displeasure, he added a balcony off the private quarters on the third floor. Like many Presidents, Truman considered himself an amateur architect and used to inspect the construction progress, leading the likes of freshman Congressman Gerald Ford through the building chaos, explaining history and design with his usual irreverence. Truman also dispensed bits and pieces of the old White House to political cronies like Speaker Sam Rayburn, whose Bonham, Texas, library still has an original marble mantelpiece...
Proving he's the smartest celebrity in the world, HARRISON FORD decided to save the announcement of his separation from E.T. screenwriter MELISSA MATHISON, his wife of 17 years, until Election Day, when most of the news outlets were occupied with other things. (If only Hugh Grant had been sharp enough to have gone for a drive on Super Bowl Sunday...) Following proper Hollywood protocol, Ford and Mathison released a joint statement through his agent: "We have been living apart for the past month. We sincerely hope we can work out our differences." Separation rumors began swirling when Ford...