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...Saturday mornings back home in Illinois, Hastert and his wife Jean drive for groceries. Afterward, Hastert likes to drop in on the local Republican headquarters several shops down to catch up on town gossip, then head to nearby Bristol, where a buddy owns a garage. Hastert loves to restore old cars and fire trucks. "Being powerful is something I never sought," he said, riding in his SUV last month past miles of corn and soybean fields in his district. "But I understand this is a fickle business, and we need to grab the moment...
Heim and Murphy are not shy about using words or taking positions that are bound to generate controversy. Take the term catfight, which they say refers to "the incontrovertible truth" that when women work together, they often clash. Catfights include spreading malicious gossip and rumors, divulging secrets and surreptitiously attacking one another in the presence of others, particularly bosses. In fact, the book was originally titled From Catfights to Colleagues until the authors ran into resistance to the C word. "Men and women are not the same," says Murphy. "We're different biologically, and we're different in personal relationships...
...true Marilyn fashion, Shakira has become a subject of fascination for Miami-area gossip columns, especially since her recent engagement to Antonio de la Rua, the son of the President of Argentina. Shakira has also become a subject of corporate interest: she's appearing in TV spots for Pepsi. Now that she is blond, represents an American soft drink and has an upper-crust Argentine fiance, will she be able to remain the same hard-driving Colombian rockera? "I plan to keep on being the same artist, with the same musical language, just in a different spoken language this time...
...WIFE OF THE PARTY: PW damns by faint (or no) praise "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History" by journalist Kati Marton, wife of Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration (Pantheon; September 21). "Predictable...banal...Marton has delivered crisply written political gossip - those who want buzz will flock to it; those looking for serious history will turn elsewhere. FORECAST: Despite its light quality, or perhaps because of it, this will be talked about everywhere, aided by a 13-city author tour, appearances on 20/20, Charlie Rose and other national media. Its first...
...public is unsympathetic to the woman, her amejo and kokujo peers are downright harsh. Some gossip that the victim dated the defendant; others speculate that her friends shamed her into calling it a rape. "We amejo feel the girl was in the wrong," says Maki Oshiro, 27, sitting in a semicircular booth at a hip-hop club called Else, one of a number of spots frequented by black U.S. servicemen. "She probably didn't know how to behave. We're here because we know it's where the Americans gather. These guys aren't scary. We know how to handle...