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...been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem. You can't help wanting a guy who knows the streets that well to live in the hood...
...turns out, the hood still lives in him. It's not just the enduring music of the Bronx in his voice (or in his jumpy cadences--when he's on a tear, he's got faster delivery than FedEx). It's the nervy edge of his judgments. Try reminding him that some people think the novel is dead. "What does that mean, the novel's dead?" He gives you a funny look. "The novel will show up at your funeral...
Some of those soldiers will come from Fort Hood, Texas, where President Bush last week rallied 4,000 members of the largest army base in the U.S. "The leader in Iraq has publicly proclaimed his hatred for our country and what we stand for," Bush told the troops. They roared approving "Hoo-ahs!" when he said they might be called on to fight...
...Action Man Dick Cheney seems the antithesis of flamboyance. Stout, gray and slightly stooped, his speech measured and monotonous, he comes across as someone who would shun risks. And yet there are stories. There is Cheney the teenager in Wyoming, attaching a rope to the hood of a car and taking turns with his friends water skiing down irrigation canals that ran parallel to roads outside Casper. There is Congressman Cheney in 1983, five years after his first heart attack and a year before his second, catapulting down a treacherous ski slope in Jackson Hole, Wyo., his red scarf flapping...
...Thatcher or Indira Gandhi." Still, she's been more than happy to invoke other Hollywood icons in the past. During the anti-Milosevic riots in October 2000, Micic and a female friend taunted the police by cruising Belgrade demonstrations in a car with "Thelma and Louise" inscribed on the hood. As a member of the Civic Alliance, one of the smallest parties within Serbia's 18-member ruling coalition, Micic was virtually unknown in Belgrade until she became a deputy speaker of parliament in late 2000. Her meteoric career has been fueled by luck as well as ambition. She became...