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Indian tribes: Abramoff lobbied on their behalf mainly to protect their casino interests???thwarting competing ventures and legislative moves to tax gambling revenues. He and partner Michael Scanlon, a former aide to Congressman Tom DeLay, were also secretly playing off their clients against one another and bilking them of millions...
This time of year, the interests??of Hollywood folks travel on parallel tracks: totting up the blockbusters and anticipating the Oscars. Start with the money. The year's top-grossing films in North American release were two sequels (the sixth Star Wars, the fourth Harry Potter) and a remake (War of the Worlds). Another remake (King Kong) may join their ranks. Stay tuned for more of the depressing same...
...To Schwarzenegger, all interests??that are not his own are "special interests." He goes after the benefits of nurses, teachers, fire fighters and cops but never attacks international corporate conglomerates...
Bergerac, a man of broad intellectual interests???art, architecture, African geography and history ?clearly is fascinated...
...season they still have a chance of going all the way. They have won seven, lost four, and are running fast in a close race for the Western Conference championship. Coach Halas is satisfied at last. He is ready to step down and devote more time to his other interests???real estate, oil wells, a laundry and a mail-order house. But Millionaire Halas will never get over his pigskin heart. "You know," he said sadly last week, "there is no greater thrill in life for me than winning a National League game. Other men may get theirs from liquor...