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Bush, his aides now project, will raise $30 million in the first six weeks of the re-election effort, a sum likely to surpass the combined total raised in the past three months by the nine Democratic presidential candidates. You have to go back to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election--if not the William McKinley era of business dominance of politics--to recall such a disparity between Republican and Democratic coffers. The difference, says Democratic strategist Harold Ickes, who helped Clinton get re-elected in 1996, gives the President "a breathtaking advantage." By the time the general election begins...
...think up a suitable retort of their own, why not borrow a rapier from the arsenal of American wit? There's a classic from Congressman Thomas Brackett Reed in the late 19th century, who said of two rivals that they "never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." If Berlusconi had trotted that one out, he would have heard as many laughs as catcalls, and fine della storia. But Disraeli, Churchill and Reed are dead, and so is the fine art of the insult...
...pretty good soccer player too. But it isn't just for his skills that Real Madrid paid Manchester United, the club for which Beckham played since he was 14, a sum of $41 million for his services. Europe's leading soccer clubs are becoming true global brands. Measured by its value on the open market, United is the most successful sports franchise in the world; Rupert Murdoch tried and failed to buy the club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base--in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds...
...ROBERTS, but it's not. Oh, that's Julia Roberts' head and Julia Roberts' body, but the head is from a photo taken in 2002, and the body is from the premiere of Notting Hill in 1999. Apparently acting on the theory that the whole is less than the sum of its parts, Redbook cut and pasted the two images to form a single, beautiful but inhuman Julia. (Cover line: THE REAL JULIA. Irony much?) Now the real real Julia is hopping mad. To restore journalistic integrity to the pictorial exploitation of celebrities, we present a photo of the total...
...Sum that two 16-year-old boys in Beijing were convicted of stealing from a classmate. The teenagers have been sentenced to jail terms of four years and two-and-a-half years...