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Troubles at Home Saakashvili's grand plans don't impress his opponents. They think that he - like most other leaders in this part of the world - is power-mad. The media and judiciary still aren't nearly independent enough. The opposition, whom Vice Prime Minister Temuri Yakobashvili dismissed as "losers, naifs and traitors," says it is persecuted for its dissent. "This energy and force [Saakashvili] has inside is a rare quality," says Sozar Subari, who was until recently Georgia's public defender. "But unfortunately, he used this to strengthen autocracy, not democracy...
BART SCOTT, a New York Jets linebacker, after learning that conservative radio host Limbaugh, a former ESPN football analyst, was part of a group attempting to purchase the St. Louis Rams...
...significant part of Kings of Leon's appeal is that the band never lets on whether it's working a con. The Kings' story is true, but with their curious facial hair, dolorous gazes and tattered designer clothes, the Followills look like Confederate soldiers under the command of General Calvin Klein. This would suggest a con. At the same time, they're capable of songs that really do make them sound like savants. The best of these is "Taper Jean Girl," from 2005's Aha Shake Heartbreak. Caleb is mostly mumbling Dixie, but with a live-wire sexuality and unpredictability...
...latter part of the '80s, Albano assumed his biggest nonwrestling role, as one-half of the titular duo on the animated and live-action Saturday-morning cartoon The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! But even when he no longer had his trademark beard, it was impossible to mistake him for anyone else. He was, as he regularly quipped, "Often imitated, never duplicated...
...taxes on the salaries of high-paid insurance executives. DeParle also said that in a White House meeting the next day, Ignagni repeatedly suggested that she was getting pressure from insurance CEOs who were alarmed about a drop in their firms' stock prices since mid-September, in part resulting from grim forecasts by Wall Street analysts. "She said her CEOs were really up in arms," DeParle said. For her part, Ignagni denies that she ever told the White House not to expect a report, and says she never discussed taxes on CEO pay with any officials. She said DeParle raised...