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...guilty plea. Both camps describe the two conservative Texan's relationship as professional?an alliance, not a friendship. "DeLay admires Bush's leadership but still thinks of himself as the strongest conservative on the block," a DeLay friend says. "They perceive DeLay as a bull in a china shop. They appreciate him as their protector and retriever." Like many of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, DeLay suffers under what officials call this Administration's general lack of respect for Congress. But he is also in the unique position of being the most prominent modern Republican politician in Texas to rise...
...almost as important a person to know as DeLay. He was not only DeLay's top staff member but also a licensed nondenominational minister who served as his pastor. He remained DeLay's closest political adviser even after Buckham left DeLay's staff to start his own lobbying shop in 1998, and DeLay rose to majority leader. Buckham was also the over-seer of the political operation known around Washington as DeLay Inc., a tight meshing of business and conservative interests that was granted a seat at the table in exchange for putting money and political muscle behind DeLay...
...shop floor of NAC Jewellers, a store in the South Indian city of Madras, is full of exquisitely wrought necklaces in gold and silver, but the prize possession of the owners is a photograph that hangs upstairs in a small office. It shows a tall crown studded with 4,000 diamonds and made from seven kilograms of gold. Four craftsmen from NAC Jewellers spent six months making the crown, at a cost of about $700,000. It now rests on a statue of the goddess Padmavathi Devi at the Tiruchanur Shrine in South India. Anantha Padmanaban, a partner...
...Quite how many more will come this year isn't clear, although Brugger expects a 10% jump in total visitors. Salzburg stores are stuffed with Mozart souvenirs - from musical boxes and T shirts to the famous Mozart Kugel chocolates. Josef and Marina Reiter, who own a souvenir shop on the motorway that connects Salzburg to Munich, are looking forward to a roaring 2006. "We are expecting the Mozart year to be great for business," says Marina Reiter. "Everyone wants to take a little bit of Mozart home with them." Not all the products being touted are conventional ones. One dairy...
Ready to simplify in 2006? As she plunked down $4.20 for a mocha grande at the local coffee shop, the author realized her life had gotten way too complicated, with too many distractions, too much stuff and too much technology. She decided that each month for a year, she would choose one of her favorite things and give it up cold turkey. Goodbye alcohol, shopping, newspapers, cell phones and chocolate; hello, awareness and enjoyment of the blessings on hand...