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...over the role of Scientology in the upbringing of their two adopted children, Isabella, 8, and Connor, 6. Cruise renounced Roman Catholicism in 1990 and has since become a sort of goodwill ambassador for Scientology, while Kidman, raised Catholic, was reportedly reluctant to raise her kids in L. Ron Hubbard's church. Kingsley dismissed the reports, saying, "Scientology had nothing to do with this." As for the timing of the split, it turns out that Cruise's stated date of separation, Dec. 21, 2000, is just three days before the couple's 10th anniversary. For those without a background...
...tollgate. But the smart guys could never quite satisfy the governor; he kept demanding rewrites until he was convinced the plan did enough for working families to protect him from the charge that he was the Country Club Candidate. "Bush said it over and over," says Indiana businessman Al Hubbard, who helped organize the economic team. "You've got to deal with the lower end. So we went back to the drawing board...
Making top banks choose brands or giving them the option to work with other brands "would not result in massive changes in credit cards for consumers," says Anita Boomstein, an attorney with Hughes, Hubbard & Reed. Analysts who follow the case say that with 27,000 types of credit cards available in the U.S. from more than 6,000 banks, the addition of a joint "Your Bank-Amex" credit card would not make a big difference to consumers numbed by interest rates and fees...
Panelists included Stephen Goldsmith, domestic policy advisor to the Bush campaign, Robert G. Hubbard, an economics advisor to the Bush campaign, Elaine C. Kamarck, a senior policy advisor to the Gore campaign who teaches at the Kennedy School and Greg Simon, a senior advisor to the Gore campaign...
...problem with this well-made fairy tale lies right at its center, in the person of Minnie Driver. She plays Mona Hubbard, a young woman willing to do anything--including hiding the fact that she's an unwed mother--in order to win beauty contests. Driver's an intelligent actress, but you don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission. Still, the film captures the frenzy for cheap renown with nicely curdled expertise, and Joey Lauren Adams is wonderful as Mona's faithful, hard-pressed best friend...