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Clutch hitting, superb defense, sharp pitching, a buccaneering spirit and more luck than any team deserves have lifted the Rockies from obscure awfulness to America's best-kept baseball secret. "It's a dream come true," first baseman Todd Helton wrote on his blog. "It's tough to put into words...
...execution carried out. President Jalal Talabani, for instance, was opposed to the death sentence on principle. But Iraqi officials accused the U.S. of shielding Hashem for an entirely different reason: the general had been a U.S. collaborator. American officials familiar with Hashem's role say he had been in secret contact with U.S. intelligence before the invasion of Iraq and had helped shorten the war by minimizing the Iraqi army's resistance to American forces. "We called him on the phone and said, Look, we will kill your units if you don't do x," a former senior officer...
...President has made no secret that he intends to pick a fight with Dems on spending. He hopes to reclaim the mantle of fiscal conservatism that plays well to his increasingly dissatisfied base, threatening to block nine of the 12 annual spending bills. The Democrats are countering by front-loading the legislative calendar with the most sympathetic bills. They next plan to hammer Bush on a bipartisan water-resources bill that again he says costs too much money. "The President's vetoes are not consistent with the judgment of the American public," says House majority leader Steny Hoyer. "We believe...
...born with the doubly optimistic name Destiny Hope Cyrus. Her father, achy-breaky country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, nicknamed her "Smiley," which was quickly shortened to "Miley." On her Disney Channel sitcom, she plays Miley Stewart, an ordinary girl with a secret identity: pop-superstar Hannah Montana. On Oct. 18, Cyrus--who has sold millions of very real albums--begins a concert tour, performing as Montana and as ... Miley Cyrus...
...success of Hannah Montana--the show, the character, the brand--is a marriage of two entertainment families: the Cyruses and Disney. Cyrus was cast after a long search for a show about a meek girl with a secret pop-star life, but, say executive producers Steven Peterman and Michael Poryes, she quickly made the role her own. "Miley is such a pistol, that playing the cautious, introverted girl was not a part of who she was," says Poryes. Her father signed on as her TV dad. "It's art imitating life imitating art," he says. "Miley cut her teeth...