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...Sure, she had a delicate temper and was prone to irrational rages in which she summarily dismissed diffident maids or waiters. True, she allegedly opined that "only little people pay taxes" and earned the nickname "the Queen of Mean." But as she saw it, New York City hotelier Leona Helmsley, who donned a tiara for a high-profile ad campaign in which she assured would-be guests that "the queen stands guard," was really just a perfectionist. By all accounts, Leona adored and was devoted to her real estate tycoon husband Harry, who was said to have always been spared...
...widespread perception that he's shifted away from the backslapping chumminess of the Blair era. He's now preparing to fight an election, possibly even as early as this fall, to turn that popularity into a fresh political mandate. That means, says Dr. Toby Dodge, an Iraq expert at Queen Mary College, University of London, he'll be "trying to draw a thick black line under the Blair legacy. Of course, the big stinking fish of the Blair legacy is Iraq...
...official candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, but after the day he spent at the Iowa State Fair Friday, Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson may as well be. Who else but a presidential wannabe, after all, would be escorted by the reigning Queen of Pork to see the fair's biggest bull, a 3,422-pound black bull named Lazar...
Then the fair's reigning Pork Queen, Rita Cook, escorted the senators off to see Big Red, the fair's biggest boar. And while many jokes were made about pork barrel spending, Thompson was quick to stress that one of the central tenets of his campaign is a conservative push to cut spending - particularly from entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid which he called "gradually bankrupting future generations in this country." In his soapbox speech, he accused other G.O.P. candidates of ignoring the budget, "other than giving lip service to it," he said...
...room at a posh Shinjuku crab restaurant, five twentysomethings surround Noboru Koyama, 60-year-old CEO of Tokyo cleaning company Musashino. Koyama looks at his watch - it's 8:30 p.m. - and announces that the party is moving: "O.K.," Koyama says briskly, "we'll do hotel bar, sushi, drag-queen show, hostess club, in that order." The young salarymen, who volunteered to spend Saturday night with their boss, gasp. "We're going...