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Though the Harvard name or network may not have greased the wheels for Puck, she says her college education led her to a job she loves--even if she didn't take the straightest path to get there...
That long taxicab ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas apparently convinced Buford Furrow that running was useless ?- which was 275 miles too late for postal worker Joseph Ileto. But because he is dead, Ileto is now authorities? straightest route to justice. Furrow has been charged with -- and reportedly has confessed to -? the killing of Ileto, along with those five counts of attempted murder, and prosecutors could seek the death penalty. Yet to a shocked public, and possibly to L.A. prosecutors seeking closure, the trial of Buford Furrow will be about hate. The connections to the white-supremacist, anti-semitic...
...well that Waters claims "he's got other young actors imitating his career. I actually hear people say, 'I want to do a Johnny Depp.' And no, I won't name who they are." What he will argue is that his friend's best work is in his straightest role: the super-responsible elder sibling trying to keep his family from spinning into total dysfunction in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? "He's real. He plays heroes in an uncorny...
...Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that reads EAT, SLEEP AND GO FISHING. But Armey has an appetite for power and a talent for finding the straightest route to it. In June, before almost anyone in his right mind would have thought Republican control of the House was possible, he was writing a memo detailing the transition plan for his party...
Throughout his career, his friends and colleagues say, Freeh has been the straightest of arrows, a diligent worker and devoted family man who remained unpretentious despite his success. "Louie is just a cut above," says Richard Martin, who worked with Freeh as a federal prosecutor. "He has a moral core that really distinguishes...