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...environment, ensuring broader home ownership and helping charities help others - but he also promised with some fire that his budget deficits would be "small and short-term, so long as Congress restrains spending and acts in a fiscally responsible manner." And while Bush declared his economic policy to be sum-up-able in just one seemingly agreeable word - "jobs" - you could tell by the crowd, now divided between steroidal Republicans and teeth-clenching Democrats, that it's going to be a long fight ahead. (None of that, however, explains why Dick Armey was reading a book...
...petitioning ex-husband KIRK KERKORIAN to increase Kira's child-support payments. Kerkorian, 84, a casino and movie-studio mogul worth an estimated $6.4 billion (he announced last week he was putting MGM up for sale), had been paying $50,000 a month, but Lisa, 36, wants the sum increased to $320,000. Kerkorian has countersued for an unspecified amount, saying Lisa has violated confidentiality agreements regarding his finances. The two wed a year and a half after Kira was born because Lisa wanted to give her child legitimacy. Kerkorian consented on the condition that Lisa divorce him after...
Cserny and Peljto combined for just 27 points, a sum lower than each of their career highs set earlier this month...
...figures for these range anywhere from $300,000 to about $4 million - the former sum to survivors of a single, older, low-income worker and the latter to the family of a young, married person who earned more than $175,000 per year. Total cost to taxpayers: $6 billion. And that's above and beyond the nearly $1.5 billion collected via fundraisers and charity drives in the wake of the attacks...
...this new generation, Euro-Islam is not a zero sum game: it is possible to be Muslim and European at the same time. In fact, unlike that of their Christian neighbors, the religious faith of Europe's Muslims is getting stronger. A survey published by French newspaper Le Monde in October shows that people from Muslim backgrounds are praying more, attending mosques more often and observing the Ramadan fast more assiduously than they did in 1994, when the survey was last conducted. The increased devotion is particularly marked among those who have been to university. In Britain, more women...