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...come the crowd attending a convention of rural electric cooperatives in a Dallas hotel last week - men whose weathered faces spoke of long days riding tractors and branding cattle - was getting such a kick out of the afternoon's speaker, the African-American Democratic nominee for Senator? Ron Kirk had them applauding from the moment he told them, "I sure wish Enron ran their business the way y'all run yours." By the time he had finished up with his line about giving the capital a dose of "what it's like to be on the front lines of problem...
...What no Republican calculations took into account was Kirk's charm. A tall, bald man with a big voice and a booming laugh, he jokes, he chats, he hugs and pats his way through a room. The 48-year-old Democrat made a sparkling career by forging alliances across ideological and racial lines, from his election as senior class president at a largely white Austin high school through two runaway victories as mayor of Dallas, a Republican citadel. When George W. was a Governor toying with the idea of a run for the White House, his nickname for Kirk, then...
...Kirk's candidacy poses a real threat of Election Day humiliation for the President on his home turf. Some polls this summer have given Kirk an edge, and all show an extremely tight race. He has mobilized heavy political backing from Dallas' conservative business elite and raised more money than Cornyn in Bush's old Dallas zip code. One contributor is Bush's own media consultant, Mark McKinnon, who counts Kirk among his former clients...
...Street banks' credit-card A.P.R.s are as high as 24.9% on a standard card. The big banks are hardly standing still. Barclays, for example, invested $468 million last year to improve its website; Smile, in contrast, will spend no more than $5.8 million to upgrade its system. And Jon Kirk, a banking analyst at Fox-Pitt Kelton, says some traditional banks automatically offer lower rates - mainly on mortgages - to customers they consider vulnerable to the allure of pure plays, such as young marrieds with high mortgage payments, hoping they'll stay put. If the stand-alones are to challenge...
...often disguised as Hollywood films. They were in English (as released here) and usually boasted an American male star surrounded by a busty bambina and a cast of local scenery-chewers. Anthony Quinn must have had dual citizenship back then: he played in "Attila" with Sophia Loren, "Ulysses" with Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano, and Fellini's Oscar-winning "La Strada" with Giulietta Masina. I didn't see the "Hercules" movies and other sword-and-sand epics, but they were probably the biggest-grossing Italian pictures of the decade...