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...Bagge and Birgisson's next chance for a big hit will come on April 16, when Jennifer Lopez's Play is released in Europe. Also due this spring is the debut effort from Amanda, a 15-year-old half-Swedish, half-French talent on Madonna's Maverick label. After that, expect to hear projects with Sheryl Crow, No Doubt's Gwen Stefani and Enrique Iglesias...
Chuck Hagel, the McCain buddy and fellow maverick Republican - he was one of only two Senate Republicans to back McCain in his "Straight Talk" presidential run - has sparked some very Shakespearean gossip by introducing his own, competing version of campaign finance reform. Hagel's approach would place a $60,000 limit on individual soft-money contributions, triple the limits (now $1,000) on contributions to specific candidates, and - this is the part Hagel swears by - strengthen disclosure requirements...
...Israel's prime-ministerial election. Sharon, the Likud Party's candidate, sat directly in front of the television. When the newscasters announced his landslide win, the suite erupted in cheers as Sharon's people pumped the air with their fists. Only Sharon sat quietly, motionless and hunched. After his maverick, wilderness years as an outsider, the buck now stopped, dauntingly, with him. Prime Minister Ehud Barak phoned to concede. "Ehud, I want to tell you that I admire the way you fought with tenacity, like a good soldier," Sharon said. "We have great things to do and can only...
...plush Tel Aviv office of his top campaign adviser. The 72-year-old Likud Party candidate in next week's prime ministerial elections was surrounded by his team of high-powered imagemakers, the professionals charged with persuading voters that the former general's reputation as a dangerous maverick is undeserved. At the end of the meeting to discuss his speaking schedule, Sharon raised his bulky frame and addressed his handlers. "I have to thank you all for making me look like such a very nice guy," he said. Then he raised his finger: "But I warn you that with...
...Bush's nominee to head his Treasury Department - and square his $1.6 trillion tax cut with Congress and the Fed chairman - joked during his short, painless, not-controversial-enough-for-live-coverage hearings Wednesday that he was "thinking about whether I can still get away with being a maverick for a few more days... I think I will...