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Forget Extreme Makeover. Look what a haircut and a shave will do. TOM SELLECK got rid of his famous mustache and almost all of his hair to play General Dwight Eisenhower in A&E's biopic Ike: Countdown to D-Day, about the 90 days leading up to the Allies' invasion of Normandy. "I didn't want to screw it up," says Selleck, who also prepared for the role by talking with Eisenhower's son and learning an appropriate President-to-be's voice. So what does he think of TV these days? Selleck refers to a gig he once...
...member of the Harvard University Security, Parking and Museum Guards Union (HUSPMGU). “If I had known they were negotiating something like this, I would have asked them to negotiate for more insurance, more money, so I could get by. [The union] was helping Harvard get rid...
...It’s confidential when you’re bargaining for members for a contract,” he said. “But they were bargaining to get rid of members’ jobs. [The workers] should have been asked what they were looking for. When you negotiate a contract, you go to your members and ask them what they want...
Bush's reaction to the CIA's prewar briefing on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction is instructive. According to Woodward, the President isn't impressed with the evidence--but this doesn't seem to cause him a moment of doubt about his mission to rid the world of Dr. Evil. No, he's concerned about the looming sales job. "Nice try," he tells John McLaughlin, the deputy CIA director. "I don't think this is quite--it's not something that Joe Public would understand or would gain a lot of confidence from...
...Broken Hill City Gallery will be opening expansive new premises to celebrate its centenary in October this year?an event that will further mark the town's arrival on the Asia-Pacific art map. "It'll be controversial," laughs Helmsley, "but it's time to get rid of the Old Guard." And time to check that hard hat at the door...