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...parks and wildlife department and Barnard Rapoport to the University of Texas board of regents. She has sidestepped some prickly issues: refusing to help devise a court- ordered plan for equalizing school funding and to introduce a state income tax to ease Texas' $4.6 billion budget shortfall. "Her honeymoon is over," , warns Tom Craddick, leader of the Republican legislative caucus. "She needs to draw up a budget to show how she'll pay for all the programs. So far, she hasn't said anything...
...role was ever so becoming to George Bush as the one he played during the war against Iraq: resolute and successful Commander in Chief of America's armed forces. It was an opportunity that came just in time. After a long honeymoon with the American people, the President's baffling flip-flops on taxes and a gathering recession caused his approval rating to fall to a so-so 53% by last autumn. The buildup to war followed by the breathtaking weeks of combat made Americans forget all that. Soon after Kuwait was liberated in February, Bush's popularity rocketed...
Even Dershowitz's harshest critics usually acknowledge that the law prof's defenses, if not his intentions, are firmly grounded in legal scholarship. But how long can Dershowitz's media honeymoon last...
...Taylor were, to put it mildly, unlucky in love. He abandoned his first wife when she was nine months pregnant and tried unsuccessfully to chloroform his second to death. Taylor brutally assaulted his third bride -- bright, insecure, eager-to-please Teresa Benigno of Staten Island, N.Y. -- on their Acapulco honeymoon. A year later, he bludgeoned her to death with a barbell, drove about the country for four days with her , disfigured body in the trunk and then abandoned car and corpse in eastern Pennsylvania. Under police questioning, he confessed to the crime but claimed that a coked-up Teresa...
...disturbing, insightful and fascinating family portrait. The script highlights the issues of dreams unattained and reality denied as it tells the story of Bette and Boo Hudlocke, June and Ward Cleaver gone terribly wrong. The young lovers marry after knowing each other only two months, and by their honeymoon the traces of their later neuroses are already apparent...