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...Jimmy Hoffa Jr., head of the Teamsters. His union did a third poll of their members after Edwards left the race. The first two had Edwards, Clinton and Obama all within the margin of error of one another. The last poll had Obama leading Clinton by double digits. Andy Stern, SEIU president, said his union saw similar results in its internal polls of members. "The polls showed what we were feeling, that there was a surge going on amongst our members like there was in the country for Senator Obama," Stern said. "In the beginning he was not so well...
...Early on, we learn that Secret Service Agent Thomas Barnes (Quaid) had taken a bullet for Ashton a year ago, so this is a least the second assassination attempt during the his regime. Ashton, though, is no ninny; stern and balding, he has the gruff gravitas of Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani, if either of them had got past their Presidential-primary gaffes and into the White House. And he is ready with heroic quotes for any occasion. When his adviser pleads, "Mr. President, we have to act strong," Ashton snaps back, "No, we have to be strong...
...they bring in the customers - Mike is left in charge. But Jerry has had a little accident at a local power station: his body has been magnetized, and when he touches the video boxes he instantly erases all the tapes, rendering them useless. The demand by a stern lady of the neighborhood, Miss Falewicz (Mia Farrow, a living connection to the Zelig trope), to watch Ghostbusters sends the guys scurrying to make their own 20-min. version of the old Bill Murray comedy, and finish it by nightfall...
...addition to the men who rose in last week's Cabinet shuffle, Thatcher is likely to continue to rely heavily on Norman Tebbit, the Employment Minister, who has emerged as one of her closest confidants. Tebbit thrust through legislation making secret strike ballots mandatory and regularly delivers stern calls for thrift welfare cuts and hard work. Another Tory to watch is Michael Heseltine, the Defense Secretary, who launched a successful counterattack against the country's growing nuclear disarmament movement. His one possible drawback: he is not a Thatcherite in economics...
...small market level, you need a kind of management intensity over a period of years to make it work," says NBA commissioner David Stern. He points to San Antonio, Portland and Utah as prime examples. "The combination of split ownership that moved the team there, the circumstances of Katrina, and the difficulty, in a big hurry, of attracting droves of talent to relocate to New Orleans - it's not a constructive circumstance for the growth of a franchise...