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...brother of the president, a member of the nation's reigning Republican political dynasty; the other is a movie star who married into the nation's most enduring Democratic political dynasty. Between them, they govern two of the biggest states in the country. But while Florida's Jeb Bush and California's Arnold Schwarzenegger certainly have the highest profiles of any state leaders in the U.S., neither has been able to translate that celebrity into full-blown success. In fact, each has learned the hard way that star power doesn't help nearly as much after an election as before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrity Govs: What About Jeb and Arnold? | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...fire in the belly, while others--like the Shipps--need something to get their pilot light lit? And why do others never get the flame of ambition going? Is there a family anywhere that doesn't have its overachievers and underachievers--its Jimmy Carters and Billy Carters, its Jeb Bushes and Neil Bushes--and find itself wondering how they all could have come splashing out of exactly the same gene pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely To Succeed | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...Hurricane Katrina. FEMA did perform more ably this time; but it fell short of redemption thanks to a Rube Goldberg bureaucracy that left local officials like Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez flummoxed by the "intricacies" of getting simple items like ice to "PODs" (points of distribution). Governor Jeb Bush tried to shield his brother George W. Bush's Administration by insisting that people "blame me" for supply shortfalls; but Gloria Williams, 45, whose apartment building was shattered by a massive fallen tree, wasn't persuaded. After the ice that she says she stockpiled before Wilma ran out, she hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 10/29/2005 | See Source »

ARRESTED. JOHN BUSH, 21, youngest son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush; on charges of public drunkenness and resisting arrest; in Austin, Texas. The Governor, whose daughter Noelle was arrested in 2002 for trying to use a fake prescription and later underwent drug rehabilitation, called the matter "private" and said his son was "doing fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 26, 2005 | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...Mart?nez, de 58 a?os, que fue sacado de Cuba a escondidas por sus padres cuando ten?a 15 a?os para escapar el r?gimen de Fidel Castro, ech? su suerte con la dinast?a Bush en el 2000, cuando el gobernador de La Florida, Jeb Bush, le pidi? que fuera codirector de la campa?a de su hermano a la presidencia. El presidente nombr? a Mart?nez secretario de Vivienda y entonces, para facilitar su propia victoria en La Florida en las elecciones del 2000, le dio empuje como candidato al senado brind?ndole, entre otras cosas, un discurso en el pleno de la Convenci?n Nacional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mel Martinez | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

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