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Almost immediately, it did. A plan engineered by DeLay and Hastert to install complaisant Rules Committee chairman David Dreier as temporary majority leader was nixed by conservatives who dislike Dreier's moderate positions on stem-cell research and gay marriage. Instead the brain trust installed ambitious whip Roy Blunt, who will share some of the majority leader's duties with Dreier. The setup is so shaky that some House Republicans are pressing for the election of a new leadership team as early as January...
...didn't take long for The College Dropout to develop coattails. Fashion-wise, you may have been blinded recently by the swarm of pink Polo shirts, while on the charts, West's friends John Legend, an R&B singer with a University of Pennsylvania degree, and Common, a whip-smart and austere Chicago rapper, both had sales spikes. West's Late Registration should push things further. "I didn't want to play it boring and safe," says West while sitting in the balcony of a 14th century church in Prague, one of the locations he hand-picked for the video...
...mail showing that Abramoff offered a complimentary meal to a longtime ally who, like him, is in a lot of ethical hot water these days. His message, headed "Tom and Christine DeLay" and addressed to restaurant staff, is dated May 2, 2002, when Tom was House majority whip, and requests that a table be set for six and the meal "comped...
...from North Carolina State, class of '84. Now as Perry carries on his football career with the Chicago Bears, Thacker is branching out to try the movies. In Wildcats, Goldie Hawn, 40, plays a Chicago high school football coach stuck with the roughest athletes in the city. To help whip her charges into shape, she recruits a shy, oversize over achiever and A student, played by Thacker. The 6-ft. 5-in., 410-lb. thespian tried not to be thrown by his lines but had no trouble throwing around the 5-ft. 6-in., 117-lb. Hawn...
...Hollywood, the director was the guy in the safari jacket and jodhpurs who ruled the set with the whip of machismo. Now the person who calls the shots is often a woman. Pictures by such directors as Amy Heckerling and Susan Seidelman are both making money and dragging a reluctant film industry into the age of equal opportunity...