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...member of the South African Parliament, an editor of a prominent U.S. newspaper and a former press secretary to First Lady Laura Bush will be among the six resident fellows at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this fall, the IOP announced Tuesday...
Other fellows include Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Mayor William P. Purcell of Nashville, Tenn., Noelia Rodriguez, the former director of communications and press secretary to Laura Bush, and E. Clay Shaw, a U.S. Representative from Florida...
...first gig was a bit darker, as coke dealer Johnny Depp's daughter in Blow. New project: Young Roberts is more Burberry than bare midriff as the smart would-be Sherlock in the Nancy Drew movie opening Friday, June 15. Good girl factoid: This summer, Roberts promoted reading with Laura Bush at an all-girls' middle school...
REBEL COUNTRY musicians have not had an easy time of it (see the Dixie Chicks), but their path to acceptance was eased immeasurably by radio pioneer Laura Ellen Hopper. In 1975 Hopper co-founded the cultish, eclectic, now defunct California station KFAT, still widely revered for its rejection of the conservative country establishment and its support of quirky artists from John Prine to Jerry Jeff Walker. Those and newer stars like Iris DeMent got a bigger push at her more successful second home, KPIG, where as founder and program director she promoted and popularized the alternative country sound of Americana...
...airlines pay a disproportionate part of the system," says FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown. "Business jets are an important part of the general aviation category and under the current structure [they] don't pay for the financial system." Commercial airlines and their passengers pay about 95% of the taxes but only account for 73% of the costs of the air traffic system, according to FAA administrator Marion Blakey. The idea coming before Congress is to overhaul the current system in favor of satellite GPS technology and aviation-funding strategies that would also include a new user-fee system to bring...