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...Gore's most loyal backer in Hollywood, is the hottest ticket in politics these days--someone not only capable of writing big checks, but willing to ask his friends to do it as well. Last week the Hollywood shuffle repeated itself. Minority leader Tom Daschle had barely taken his toe out of the presidential water before it dawned on everyone that one of Daschle's primary patrons, Dreamworks partner David Geffen, was suddenly up for grabs...
...Shawto (pronounced De-Shawn-toe), 28, and his wife knew it would be a while before they could afford the sort of professional photos of Debraysha that they had got for their two older children, Moriah, 10, and De-Shawto Jr., 8, when they were babies. The Cochrans have been homeless since August, and money's tight for a family that lacks a place to call home...
...March assumed 3% growth over the next five years. Chirac told voters that such expansion would allow him to cut income taxes by a third, lower some corporate rates, and boost spending on police and defense. But if he keeps his promises, it will be impossible for France to toe Brussels' line. In the past, Chirac has had a major economic force pulling in his favor - French consumers, whose spending could qualify as patriotic. It's a resilience not unique to France, though. Says Fitoussi: "What we're seeing in the O.E.C.D. economies is the stagnation and decline of investment...
...songs have a direct message; some have emotional meaning; and some, in gimlet-eyed retrospect, make you wonder why you ever picked them in the first place (this means you, Anna Nicole). But then you play that CD back on the stereo, a few older, fatter years later. Your toe taps. A memory comes back. And you realize that in that nonsensical mess of cotton-candy lyrics and throwaway choruses, you somehow managed to write down your life...
...drifters. But with The Rising, released near the Sept. 11 anniversary, he stuck to what we could all agree on: a feeling of sadness and a yearning for hope. Maybe because of the latter, The Rising's music can be oddly cheery--Empty Sky and Lonesome Day are awfully toe tapping for songs of mourning--as Springsteen keeps circling back to one central image: the clear blue sky over the Eastern seaboard on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The Rising is poignant, even wrenching ("Without you I'm ... an ice-cream truck on a deserted street...