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...race to replace Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader may not be the only change at the top looming for Republicans in Congress. While front-runner Roy Blunt of Missouri tries to fend off challenges from Arizona Republican John Shadegg and Ohio Representative John Boehner ahead of the Feb. 2 vote, there's been a quiet push, led by California's Dan Lungren, to force an election of all of the GOP leadership jobs-except for Speaker Dennis Hastert, who is popular among members. "We need some new vision at the leadership table," says Anne Northup, a GOP member from...
...FASHION Designer Eyes Tom Ford Eyewear debuted this month with the slick Jennifer model. The former Gucci guru, who has a special love for sunglasses, clearly sees bigger as better. Tattoo You Body art is back in fashion as brands like Ed Hardy T shirts and A & G cashmere flaunt tattoo motifs. Even Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesqui?re is selling tattoo-style T shirts. Nude is the New Black Designers have embraced a palette that's as fresh as a compact full of face powder. Makeup colors like ivory and blush dominate the latest collections and have even infiltrated Burberry...
...classmates—was the cream of the high school crop, one of the nine percent of 22,000 applicants selected by Harvard last year. I never used to stare at myself in the mirror and see a slacker. I studied hard, I studied well, and I studied early. Tom Cruise would say that I just don’t have the will power to control my affliction, but that’s not true. I do, of course I do. I am a Harvard student! So the blame must lie elsewhere. As with all problems on campus, we students...
Abramoff has told the feds, according to the source, that Ney, the chairman of the powerful Committee on House Administration, and his staff repeatedly demanded help in raising cash for the National Republican Campaign Committee--the "NRCC" of Abramoff's e-mail. Under then House majority leader Tom DeLay, Ney and his fellow G.O.P. chairmen had to meet steep fund-raising quotas or risk losing their plum positions...
...BOASTS OF BIG BUCKS. Eight months later, his team smiled again when the paper ran a list of Boehner's "K Street Cabinet," loyal lobbyists and other power brokers who would help run the show if he achieved his longtime ambition of becoming House Speaker or majority leader. With Tom DeLay's machine still in charge of the Capitol, those were the credentials that would get an aspiring lawmaker taken seriously...