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...declaration of World War III by the former House Speaker and West Georgia College History professor - and possible future presidential candidate - has lit up the blogosphere. ("Will Dick Cheney?s deferments finally falter in WW3?" asked Nick Gillespie on Wonkette.com.) And he wasn't backing down a bit when TIME.com caught up with him on Monday...
...speed up their creation like time-lapse photography--the series remind us that food, clothes and furnishings are not just frivolities but deeply personal expressions. The opposite happens with TLC's The Messengers (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts July 23), which, seeking nothing less than "the next great inspirational speaker," takes serious problems and renders them trivial. Ten contestants (among them a pastor, a surfer and an ex-cheerleader) deliver a speech to judges and an audience each episode after going on a "field trip"--which, in the premiere, involves spending the night on L.A.'s streets with the homeless...
...Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Tulane University. His latest book, Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, will be released in paperback in July...
...characters in Kurkov's absurdly realistic landscape. In his 2004 novel, The President's Last Love, Russian President Vladimir Putin duly steps down when his second term expires in 2008, but makes a comeback in 2012. (The scenario isn't so far-fetched: late last month, Russian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov suggested it would be constitutionally acceptable for Putin to return to office then.) The novel follows Putin as he presides over a gala honoring the 400th anniversary of the Romanov imperial dynasty, after which, naturally, the Russian Orthodox Church canonizes Lenin as "the guardian of the poor...
...frustrations of its Republican leaders, who had been telling the White House for weeks that they couldn't accept the Senate bill, which gives many illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. "They didn't seem to want to hear that," says a top congressional aide. So House Speaker Dennis Hastert, in a meeting before the annual congressional picnic at the White House on June 15, told Bush about his planned hearings to rally opposition to the Senate's bill. Bush's reaction? "He listened," Hastert says...