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...line would find McCain out recruiting primary challengers, even down to the city-council races. "You are either with him," says a local politician who supports McCain, "or you're wearing the black hat." Says his former administrative assistant Grant Woods, with whom relations have gone sour: "As a maverick McCain doesn't tolerate mavericks well...
When word leaked that Aimee Mann was recording the sound track to director Paul Thomas Anderson's hotly awaited film Magnolia, it was hard to know which was the bigger surprise: that a maverick songwriter from pop's margins had landed such a plum job, or that Mann was releasing anything...
...name--and didn't have to. His issues are perfect weapons against Bush, who personifies the money game McCain wants to clean up. Otherwise, the two candidates' positions are similar--each opposes gun control and abortion and styles himself as tolerant and fiscally austere--but McCain is playing the maverick grownup to Bush's Establishment child...
Likewise, Robbie and Evon exchange barrages of zingers but are not a comedy team. When the maverick and the dutiful agent eventually come together, the banter deepens into a revealing meeting of minds. Evon discovers her true nature, and Robbie stows his masks and confesses that he is terrified of waking up and not knowing...
...These guys hate McCain," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They think he?s sanctimonious, and their seats are so safe that they risk absolutely nothing with a free walloping." And this time the maverick brought it on himself. "McCain tripped up," says Dickerson. "By bringing up specific pork barrel projects ?- which are a problem but not nearly as serious as, say, a big tax break to an industry that contributes millions to a party ? his rhetoric outstripped the larger, valid point he?s trying to make. So they jumped...