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...different direction? If they can bring back the old Coke, why can't they bring back the double-decker bus? And strawberries that have a taste? Not to mention chickens and tomatoes and potatoes? And milk that still has the cream on top, so that you can whip it and slather it over the tasty strawberries...
...Italy and studying local specialties in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing legendary dinner parties, singlehandedly roasting, frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends and even matchmaking between courses. On a lark, he and some film-student buddies decided to whip up a show featuring his cooking exploits. Campus Cuisine's authenticity--Lieberman was a real college student showing his contemporaries how to do things like make smoothies out of dining-hall fruit--helped the show gain a cult following. Students would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for a "hookup" recipe...
...payroll (earning $59,000 in 1997), its truck was registered at his residence, and his lobbying business operated at the time from a town house the group owned. Democrats, howling that the whole operation was a front for DeLay's political machine, filed a racketeering lawsuit against the whip. They later settled, after DeLay spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees...
...wilderness days of what then seemed like perpetual minority status in the House. Together DeLay and Buckham worked to push their party to the right on issues like taxes, welfare and federal regulatory policy. When the Republicans took control of the House, Buckham moved over to DeLay's whip's office, staying three years before he announced he needed to spend more time with his wife and four children...
...more ominous sign for DeLay: those who might succeed him have begun quietly positioning themselves to make a move if the opportunity arises, sources say. Among the possible successors most frequently mentioned are majority whip Roy Blount of Missouri, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Tom Reynolds of New York, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Rob Portman of Ohio. Not so long ago, it looked as though the speakership would be DeLay's for the taking after Hastert left the post, probably after the next election. But if DeLay is doing any praying in his office these...