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...message, thought reprises his attack-dog role from the 2004 campaign. The President tends to avoid singling out particular legislators from the opposition, while Cheney names names, especially when he's talking about the likely committee chairs if Democrats were to retake the House or Senate. In Topeka, where the Vice President warned against "any strategy of resignation and defeatism," the audience responded with scattered boos when he reeled off the names of Democrats who could head committees if the G.O.P. lost control of the House or Senate...
...Republican National Committee says the Vice President has raised an astounding $40 million for the midterm elections at 113 campaign events since his reelection, including $215,000 at a reception in Topeka for Congressman Jim Ryun and $180,000 tonight in New Orleans at a reception for the national party, to be held at a club with a 30th-floor view of the Mississippi River. While in Louisiana, he was also receiving briefings from the Army Corps of Engineers and from Don Powell, the federal coordinator of Gulf Coast reconstruction, and touring a barge company by the Port...
...road for his own ticket in 2004, and he tells applauding audiences these days, "Don't hold back!" In Houston, he joked, "At ease, please." He still jokes that as the lone Congressman from Wyoming, his delegation was small - "but it was quality." For the Topeka crowd today, he noted of his tie-breakers as president of the Senate, "The thing I've noticed is that every time I get to vote, our side wins...
...shows will be the centerpiece for MyNetworkTV, a new network formed by Fox out of 139 mainly small- and middle-market stations, from Topeka, Kans., to Utica, N.Y., that were left behind after the merger of UPN and the WB networks. Just as UPN featured African-American shows and the WB turned into a home for angsty teenage dramas, MyNetworkTV could make its mark with the telenovelas, its first original programming. "We're purchasing several years' worth of novelas," Cook says. If those two don't find an audience, he'll try others. "We believe in this...
...Memories 1890-1954 informs us, was "the lyricist for more popular songs than any other songwriter in history." In the mid-'40s, Mercer, a founder of Capitol Records, also had three No. 1 hits as a vocalist: "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "Candy" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" - a record, I believe, for a classic pop songwriter. The Savannah native with the gap-toothed smile was the author or co-author of more than 1,000 songs, which scaled the charts for 30 years, in the prime of the Great American Songbook. His songs lasted well...