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Traveling with Bush as he campaigned in Louisiana, Attlesey sidled up to the Governor after a press conference at a school in Metairie and asked him if he could clear the FBI background check administered to prospective employees. The standard questionnaire asks applicants if they have used illegal drugs in the previous seven years. Bush hemmed and hawed, giving Attlesey a non-answer, before slipping away to his hotel suite. But the Governor stewed about the question. A little later, Mark McKinnon, Bush's media director, called Attlesey in the hotel lobby and asked if he could take a copy...
...BACKGROUND CHECKS AT GUN SHOWS...
...Senate remains overwhelmingly skeptical of a treaty that would inevitably prove costly to the nation of whom it requires the greatest cuts, and against that background U.S. negotiators are trying to find ways of easing the load required by the treaty. Although it has been agreed that countries such as the U.S. will be able to buy polluting "rights" from countries that produce less than their limit of carbon gases to cover inevitable shortfalls in achieving U.S. targets - in other words, pay other countries to increase their own cuts - that could still prove to be a costly solution...
...collection of mainstream country pop singer/songwriter Bryan White's chart-topping singles, a selection that reveals not only the artist's development of his country-pop style but also his growth as a relentless perfectionist. Opening the album is "Love is the Right Place," supported vocally by the moving background voice of Bekka Bramlett. "Rebecca Lynn," which White has described as a signature song, never ceases to tire with the strong acoustic and guitar playing of Billy Joe Walker...
Powerfully simple lighting and the simmering background of of throbbing sound design created by Harry Kimballs '03 fill the cramped space with a disconcerting and aggressive atmosphere that puts the Kronauer's limited capabilities to excellent...