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...doubled its global agent base, from 25,000 to 60,000, within the past three years. MoneyGram also scored a few big wins last year, including deals to place its outlets in Wal-Mart stores and Canada Post offices. "We're trying to be nimble and move quickly," says Phil Milne, who heads the money-transfer company, based in Minneapolis. MoneyGram generally charges lower transaction fees and offers a better exchange rate than Western Union. But Western Union, having partnered with national post offices in some 25 countries, including a recent double whammy in India and China, has a reach...
...commentator Bill O'Reilly - have been a growing source of frustration for Democrats. And while liberal commentators such as former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower have made a stab at syndicated talk shows, they have by and large been unsuccessful. In March, the MSNBC cable news network canceled Phil Donahue's talk show after a disappointing six-month run against The O'Reilly Factor. However, some liberals point to the success of Hillary Clinton's just-released memoir as evidence that a marketplace exists for their viewpoint...
...been floated for a top job - Republicans spoke of him as a potential running mate for Bob Dole in 1996. But his long experience also means the environmental movement already has his dossier. A Kempthorne nomination "would embroil the administration in the worst of all conformation battles," says Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust...
Thus we have Hail to the Thief, the most relaxed and diverse album in the career of rock's most analytical control freaks. "We've made some cold records in the past," says drummer Phil Selway. "This, to me, is the first thing we've put down that doesn't sound like a white-knuckle riot. I can listen to this." Hail to the Thief is still a Radiohead album--brooding in places, soaring in others, with a slight undertone of apocalypse all around--but the songs are shorter and tighter, and there are several uninterrupted patches of actual warmth...
After just one year of training in the Groundlings, a group that had included other famous comedians like Phil Hartman, Lisa Kudrow, Pee Wee Herman, and Jon Lovitz, Ferrell was asked to join the group as a performer...