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Inside, however, the walls are plastered with signed photos from grateful clients. There's Sean Connery, who opened his laptop on a plane one day and found that its hard drive had somehow managed to erase itself; Sting, who briefly lost the records of how much he was worth; and stumble-prone President Gerald Ford, who dropped his laptop. A computer retrieved from a burning house is on display, as is one crushed under the wheels of a shuttle bus and another rescued from a cruise ship that sank to the bottom of the Amazon. As with more than...
...like Dewar's or Wild Turkey. Catching their eye means selling at bars; bars in turn influence retailers. That's why the bar show is a must for firms like White Rock Distilleries of Lewiston, Maine, which flogs such novelties as schnapps in flavors called Poison (Wild Berry) and Sting (Sour Raspberry). Because the slogan for the new line is Have You Had Your Shots Today?, samples are served by statuesque blonds in white-vinyl nurse uniforms and thigh-high stockings. The visual becomes even more apt after a slug of Poison, which tastes almost exactly like paregoric...
When Jack White isn't singing, he may be the most thoroughly unendurable rock star since Sting. White insists that he and drummer Meg White are brother and sister (they're actually ex-husband and wife); he also considers himself a modern bluesman, wears his red band uniform offstage and uses the liner notes of his new album, Elephant, for a jeremiad on "the death of the sweetheart." He's like a vigilante grad student holding a highlighter pen to your throat--except when he sings. Jack White can really sing...
...west of Sulaimaniya, fewer and fewer cars are allowed to cross each day. At Kifri, further south, goods had been smuggling back and forth thanks to bribes to the Iraqi border guards. On March 1 Iraqi secret police posed as travelers and arrested the Iraqi border detail in a sting. Since then nothing has made it through. Trucks and aged Land Rovers that a week ago carried lucrative petrol and foodstuffs now make do with fare-paying passengers. Taxi drivers say the underpaid Iraqi soldiers are asking for "pocket money" so they can return to their homes before...
Have deficits lost their political sting? This Administration apparently thinks so. The budget proposal released by President Bush last week projects a deficit of more than $300 billion for each of the next few years. That's a far cry from Bush's election-year pledge to avoid red ink--though he now insists he made an exception for times of war, recession or national emergency. "A balanced budget is a high priority for this Administration," says Mitch Daniels, Bush's budget director. "It is not the top or the only priority." Republican consultants are betting the White House will...