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...where he grew up on a farm, he's lived virtually all of his 59 years in his sprawling commuter district west of Chicago, which also includes Ronald Reagan's hometown. Heavyset and rumpled, Hastert looks a little like comedian Drew Carey. In public his staff addresses him as Mr. Speaker, but in private he prefers that they simply call him Denny. He shuns the Beltway talk-show-and-cocktail circuit and, at the end of the week, usually catches the first plane he can back to his modest Yorkville, Ill., home across from a cornfield on Route 34. When...
...waiting to meet with the President. Schumer at one point stood up in that meeting and recounted how Bush had just told him that New York would get the extra $20 billion. When he sat down, he leaned over to Bush, who was sitting next to him. "You know, Mr. President, there was a lump in my throat when I said that," he whispered to Bush. "I could hardly speak." Bush patted Schumer's knee and said, "Well, that doesn't happen very much." Bush knows Schumer isn't exactly shy with the press...
...Well, Mr. President, I'll be speechless for $20 billion any time you want," Schumer answered. Bush chuckled and patted him on the back...
...called special period. After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Cuba was economically squeezed, leading the government to crack down on small-time black marketeers, a move some felt hit Cubans of color harder than whites. One of Grandes Ligas' raps asks, "Why do you stop me, Mr. Policeman? Is it because my skin is black...
...NYSE chief Richard Grasso vows to anyone who asks that when the doors swing wide Monday and the opening bell rings at 9:30 a.m., the granite heart of American capitalism will pump money and investments just like it has always done. That when Mr. and Mrs. Public phone their broker or log onto their eTrade account to look to their retirement, the call - and the trade - will go through...