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...break it, you pay for it, Mr. President," said Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, echoing Colin Powell's famous rule at the outset of the Iraq war. Bush didn't seem to get the joke. "I suppose you're right," he said, and tried to buy the broken pumpkin...
What no one in Wolfsburg wants to admit is that VW may have a broken business model in the U.S. Unlike BMW or Mercedes-Benz, VW can't charge the rich prices necessary to offset the cost of exporting from Germany. And unlike its German rivals, VW doesn't make cars in the U.S.--its one American plant shut in 1988--a problem given the dollar's slump versus the euro...
...divorce battle--PAUL MCCARTNEY has hired Prince Charles' old attorney and HEATHER MILLS MCCARTNEY Lady Di's--but someone misfired last week. Leaked court documents allege that Sir Paul had, among other mean and nasty things, refused to let his wife use a bedpan and stabbed her with a broken glass. He's waiting until trial to address the allegations, and her reps won't comment on who leaked them, but their disclosure means she'll have less bargaining power come settlement time. Coincidentally, since Sir Paul just applied to trademark his name for use on scads of products from...
...difference-makers in that game.The most questionable call of this game, though, will be remembered for what might not have happened.An unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on safety Danny Tanner with less than five minutes to play in the game, after a chest-pound that followed a broken pass, led to Princeton’s deciding touchdown. The jury was still out on whether it was, at that crucial juncture of the game, the right call by the referees.“We got called on a penalty the same in the first half, so I credit the officials with calling...
...poor is not such a bad thing, that still leaves one more disturbing piece of the story. David was not an orphan. His father, a potato farmer named Yohane, brought him to the orphanage after losing his wife and two other sons, and was too poor, too broken to take care of David anymore. "They are a lovely couple," Yohane said of Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie. "She asked me many questions. She and her husband seem happy with David. Madonna promised me that as the child grows she will bring him back to visit...