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...that night, I was given an earpiece, a sleeve microphone, a clipboard, two giant bodyguards and a stack of tickets: $20, $10 and comp, which I could give out at will. I was assisted by doorman Brantly Martin, 23, whose only advice in evaluating women was to turn away trashy ones. When I pressed him, he explained, "No fake breasts." This whole beautiful-people thing, I was learning, is highly subjective. When I asked him if a group of women in line met his qualifications, he shook his head and said, "Look at shoes. You can always tell...
...House changes the bill, there will be a House-Senate conference to work out the differences--or provide for a suitable burial. The Republican leadership can stack the conference with reform foes, who could help kill the bill behind closed doors and save Bush from a tough veto decision. Bush will need all the political capital he has to move his budget and tax proposals through Congress; reform opponents knew last week that they could not count on his veto to save them...
...House changes the bill, there will be a House-Senate conference to work out the differences - or provide for a suitable burial. The Republican leadership can stack the conference with reform foes, who could help kill the bill behind closed doors and save Bush from a tough veto decision. Bush will need all the political capital he has to move his budget and tax proposals through Congress; reform opponents knew last week that they could not count on his veto to save them...
...electric-blue morning light, slouches toward his apartment. In a few hours his roommates will be surprised not to meet another of his conquests stumbling into the living room for breakfast. Not this morning - this morning Fai is high and happy but alone, heading back to his stack of Japanese porno DVDs and his trusty remote control. This morning, the hunter's coming home empty-handed...
...balances. When Bush signs the finished bill - which he will, when the Senate and House are finished reconciling the two near-identical versions - only those who fall below a certain income threshold, or are unemployed, will be able to do so, and then only after they fill out a stack of forms. The rest will have to settle for Chapter 13, which in most states allows a debtor to keep his house but forces some repayment of unsecured debts under a court-approved plan...