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...mundane remarks, pointing excitedly into the crowd as if he had just spotted a long-lost friend or a donor. Except for Senator Chuck Schumer, stage center, trying to boogie with the homeboys, it was picture perfect, a routine ribbon cutting turned into exuberant street carnival. Cable dropped its split-screen coverage of Clinton alongside the current President giving a speech, and went with full-screen coverage of an ex-President opening an office. The New York Times's headline the next day: A HERO'S WELCOME...
...episode is the latest act in Carey's diva drama. Act I may have been her 1998 divorce from Tommy Mottola, boss of Sony Music and the man who helped make Carey a star. (She later signed a deal with Virgin that brings her $23.5 million an album.) The split was bitter, and Carey came to suspect that Mottola was trying to defame her--to make Mariah a pariah. Earlier this summer she hired Jack Palladino, a San Francisco-based private eye who worked for Bill Clinton in the Bimbogate scandals and Jeffrey Wigand in the Insider tobacco case...
...mundane remarks, pointing excitedly into the crowd as if he had just spotted a long-lost friend or a donor. Except for Senator Chuck Schumer, stage center, trying to boogie with the homeboys, it was picture perfect, a routine ribbon cutting turned into exuberant street carnival. Cable dropped its split-screen coverage of Clinton alongside the current President giving a speech, and went with full-screen coverage of an ex-President opening an office. The New York Times's headline the next day: A HERO'S WELCOME...
...congressional maps. Over the last ten years, of course, the Republicans have leveled the playing field considerably. Before last November?s election, the Democrats controlled only 19 governorships while the GOP controlled 29. Of the 49 bicameral state legislatures, Democrats controlled 19, Republicans held 17, while 13 others were split. (Nebraska has a unicameral non-partisan legislature...
...millions of dollars that were pumped into state elections last fall, however, only managed to buy a draw for both parties. The party breakdown for governors remains the same: 19 for the Democrats and 29 for the Republicans. Republicans now control 17 legislatures, Democrats 16, and the parties split the remaining16...