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...water for the sharks in Dubya's sea. Thanks to Cheney and Rumsfeld, a generation of players with a well-honed ideology give the team a distinct hard-nosed tilt. When a friend asked Paul Wolfowitz, who is one of them, why he took the managerial No. 2 slot at Defense, he gave a one-word answer "Powell"?though Wolfowitz now denies it. These guys don't salute anyone, and they don't operate behind closed doors. They speak loudly, in public, and they make demands. Powell faces rivals who are interested less in solving problems, as he is, than...
...Less than two weeks before, Welles and his producing partner John Houseman had been told they were hired to put on "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" (also known as "First Person Singular") as a nine-week summer re-placement in the Lux slot, Monday nights from 9 to 10 on CBS. So they scurried for a property, chose Bram Stoker?s epistolary novel "Dracula" and, in an all - night cut - and - paste session at Reuben?s Deli, assembled the adaptation. The pressure isn?t evident in the show, but the furious energy is. From the first minutes, which turned...
...doubts that Maryland's political elite once had about her. And no Kennedy of her generation has been as skillful as Kathleen at enjoying the benefits of being American royalty without being swallowed by them. Kathleen "lobbied the hell out of us" to nail down a prime-time speaking slot at last year's Democratic National Convention, says a former Gore-campaign official. (But she lost the high-profile gig to her cousin Caroline, the princess of Camelot...
What juggernaut could possibly have kept P. Diddy's The Saga Continues out of Billboard's top album slot this week? The answer is ALICIA KEYS, 20, whose Songs in A Minor is the musical surprise of the summer. Keys, a classically trained pianist, describes her sound as "Beethoven meets Wu-Tang, with a lot of soul." Besides reaching record buyers, she also grabbed Prince's attention with a cover of his B-side chestnut How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore? "He invited me down to perform at this festival he just finished putting on in Minneapolis," says...
Next year, Anderson appears poised to move into Gunderson's primary slot, but the team will be looking to a strong recruiting class to replace the left-handed Magnuson...