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Bill Ford was never particularly comfortable with his country-club world, anyway. His father William Clay Ford, brother of longtime chairman Henry II, chaired Ford Motor's finance committee and bought the Detroit Lions. His mother Martha Parke Firestone (yes, that Firestone) was already an auto blueblood. Although educated at the élite institutions of Hotchkiss and Princeton, Bill was especially interested in labor and what working people do. His passions tended toward sports, American history and the environment. His parents hoped he would not grow up a snob, and his mother drove him across town to play hockey...
...stake. The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal makes this an ideal time to go after what are known as earmarks--that is, spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. That pork is a mainstay of the lobbying industry. And there is little money to spend anyway, so Bush might as well retool himself as a fearless budget cop. "Listen, we got a lot of people in Washington who preach fiscal discipline, and then they go on to vote against spending restraint," Bush told the Economic Club of Chicago just after New Year...
...shades - comes with a mirror attached to the side of its tube and is fitted with a tiny bulb that illuminates the whole product at one click. The batteries can't be changed, but since the light lasts for some 10,000 clicks it'll probably outlast the gloss anyway. The glosses cost $25 and can be ordered from www.liparazzi.com or bought at select department stores across Europe and the U.S. Since Liparazzi's debut last month it has proved so popular - some shades sold out within two days - that the London-based Leykinds plan to bring out illuminated makeup...
...Anyway, my guess is that, for much of the nation, the appearance of new bin Laden tapes is cause for increased anxiety-an ugly little reminder that our war on terrorism has thus far failed to rub out the man that the White House once upon a time identified at its chief target. But for me, tapes like this come as something of a relief...
...their hands. Says Alan Stern, Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission and head of space sciences at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., "People ask me if I'll go into a depression now. But I have a job, and I'm working on lots of projects. Anyway, in a year it will be at Jupiter, and at that point we'll have a whole lot of data to process...