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When he's disengaged, the Texas Governor looks as if he's scrambling around inside his suit. That was true during the primary season's debates, but on the subject of baseball he is at his most confident--part team owner and part Little Leaguer ready to wear his hat backward. In the relaxed milieu of the campaign plane, Bush can seem like any bench jockey spitting out nicknames and wisecracks. He cultivated this part of his personality as a high school and college player as much as in the Yale frat house. It can even inspire a kind...
...campaign trail, baseball is a touchstone. Asked to name a hero, he names Ryan, who played for the Texas Rangers when Bush was the team's co-owner. The toughest challenge the Governor has faced? Firing manager Bobby Valentine. What mistake does he most regret? Trading hitting superstar Sammy Sosa to the Cubs, he said during the primaries, only half in jest. He cites his Rangers experience because it is when his professional career first flowered. "His relationship with the game gives you a big window into what he is all about," says Tom Scheiffer, the Rangers' current managing partner...
...begin with Villa. Through most of the 1990s, he was president, chief executive officer and indirect owner of 99.5% of the stock of H.J. Meyers & Co., Inc., a brokerage firm based in Rochester, N.Y., with branch offices in more than a dozen cities. H.J. Meyers was a boiler room. Its most significant feature, according to an investigation by Massachusetts securities authorities, "was the high-pressure tactics of management continually exerted on brokers, who then used high-pressure tactics on their customers." Brokers cold-called people urging them to invest in speculative securities and initial public offerings underwritten by the firm...
...over gun killings to a call for what they term "common-sense gun laws"--tougher background checks, longer "cooling-off" periods before buying a gun and mandatory safety locks on handguns. The Million Moms agenda also insists that Congress regulate guns the way states do automobiles: by licensing the owner and registering...
NAME: Shubert Organization OCCUPATION: Producer, theater owner and Broadway powerhouse COUNTERPUNCH: Files complaint with Actors Equity citing Stewart's unprofessional conduct; asks union to oust...