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Such skepticism is common in Chillicothe, but it doesn't keep people from supporting Bush's plan. Jo Ann Stauffer, an administrative assistant for the local sheriff, and her husband William, an engineer at Kenworth, would stand to save about $800 from Bush's tax cut. "I trust Bush when he says it's meant for working families," says Jo Ann. The couple has put off a trip to Cocoa Beach, Fla.--their first vacation without the kids--because of economic worries. If the tax cut comes through, Jo Ann says, "we might be able to take that trip...
...just a couple of chords." He's half right. Unlike the music of Pavement, which often defined itself by taking a couple of chords and finding the loopiest way possible to descend into chaos, Stephen Malkmus is instantly catchy, though still weird enough to satisfy the cult. The song Jo Jo's Jacket is a vague tribute to Yul Brynner, and The Hook may be the first indie-rock pirate chantey. That aside, Malkmus has grown as a songwriter. Jenny and the Ess-Dog is a churning rocker that chronicles a doomed hippie romance, while Church on White, written...
...When Weinig petitioned DOJ for a commuted sentenced last April, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White of New York - whose office also indicted Rich - objected. Justice pardon attorney Roger Adams agreed, and so did Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who sent a formal memorandum to White House counsel Beth Nolan with the department's negative views...
...wonder, then, that in the fall of 1999, when Quinn contacted the U.S. Attorney's office in New York about making a deal, he got, as he says, "the back of the hand" from U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White. In Quinn's view, the original criminal prosecution of Rich was flawed, making an example of him for an offense that other oil companies had simply been fined for. But the Justice Department wasn't buying it. Officials insisted that no negotiations could begin until Rich went home to face the music...
...wonder, then, that in the fall of 1999, when Quinn contacted the U.S. attorney's office in New York about making a deal, he got, as he says, "the back of the hand" from U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White. In Quinn's view, the original criminal prosecution of Rich was flawed, making an example of him for an offense that other oil companies had simply been fined for. But the Justice Department wasn't buying it. Officials insisted that no negotiations could begin until Rich went home to face the music...