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This past Sunday, fans watched the Celtics upset the Phoenix Suns at Nocturnal Nannies Arena. I have no idea what that means...
...reform Social Security, but bookmakers in Washington are lengthening the odds of its passage. Republicans have returned from a weeklong recess telling stories of meetings on the issue with voters who ranged from suspicious to downright hostile. At a town-hall gathering at the Madison #1 Middle School in Phoenix, Ariz., G.O.P. lawmaker John Shadegg faced a crowd of 280 people, 30% of whom by his estimate were there to voice angry opposition to tinkering with Social Security. "They rushed to the microphones," says Shadegg. After 17 town halls across Iowa last week, Charles Grassley, head of the Senate Finance...
...process, not the end," says a senior White House official. Bush will continue to travel a couple of days each week to the districts of G.O.P. lawmakers and "persuadable" Democrats. But tactics are getting rougher. Shadegg believes that liberal groups were behind the onslaught he faced in Phoenix, and the George Soros--funded Campaign for America's Future has launched newspaper ads accusing Louisiana Republican Jim McCrery of supporting Bush's plan because investment companies donated to his campaigns. A top Republican adviser says members are telling him they will need better ammunition before facing constituents again during the Easter...
...Nissan, Toyota--Mitsubishi is one of the most troubled. The company has been shaken over the past year by revelations of long-running campaigns in various divisions to cover up critical manufacturing defects, some of which have proved lethal. Many large investors, including DaimlerChrysler and Japanese private-equity fund Phoenix Capital, have begun selling off their stakes or announced that they plan to do so soon, leaving questions about M.M.C.'s survival. Japanese sales dropped 40% in 2004, with $2.2 billion in losses in the first nine months of this fiscal year. Into this mess steps Nishioka, also chairman...
Most people who come to Allison DuBois are trying to reach the souls of the dead. Paramount Television came to her to find living viewers. DuBois, a Phoenix, Ariz., psychic who lends her services to crime investigations, had earlier worked with Paramount on an unsuccessful reality pilot, Oracles, in which a panel of five seers gave readings to a studio audience. In 2003, the company asked if it could base a drama series on her, to be overseen by Glenn Gordon Caron of Moonlighting fame. The creator of a romantic private-eye series may not have seemed the natural choice...