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Being a bookie is no more uncommon in South Philadelphia than being, say, a pizza-pie maker. Sure, it's illegal. But Max (whose real name is being withheld to protect his operation and Campaign Diary's wager) wonders what's the greater crime: a row-house palooka's supporting his family by offering a convenient alternative to government-run lottery bamboozles, or the fact that American public policy and the Lincoln Bedroom are for sale to the highest bidders...
...Disarmingly, he once allowed as how he missed his bed, his feather pillow (he carries one with him), his dog Spot and his cat Ernie. For all his jokes about suffering, he campaigns at what must be the most leisurely pace since Eisenhower. Two events a day is not uncommon. On July 13 Bush left Austin, Texas, at 8:30 a.m., gave a half-hour speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Pittsburgh, Pa., attended a dinner at 6:30 p.m. in East Brunswick, N.J., and called it a night at 8:20. The next day began with...
...when the couple arrived, Furlow reported that Roxanne was having second thoughts--not uncommon in adoptions. For days, the Mostroms sat in a hotel room and waited. "Basically, I just sat in the room and cried the whole time," Kelly remembers. At one point, Furlow even appeared at the hotel--dressed in light-blue hospital scrubs. She'd just helped deliver another baby, she said, but had to rush...
...masterwork of political repositioning. Part spin, part smarts and all opportunism, Kim 2.0 is an impressive creation, an example of a 180-degree image shift that was achieved in near Internet time--hardly something anyone would have expected from Pyongyang, where cell phones are as uncommon as Cokes...
Hitmaking is personal for Jerkins. He's not interested in producing explicitly violent or sexual material. "I kinda want to do things that my mother can hear," he says. "If my mother can listen to it, then I'll work on it." It is an uncommon attitude in contemporary pop: it's unlikely, for example, that Jay-Z mailed off any CD singles of his song Big Pimpin' for Mother...