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...does not like to have contributors or local officials in his cars, planes or holding rooms unless they are there for a good reason, and he sometimes questions his underlings sharply if someone he considers extraneous is admitted. To make sure that doesn't happen, chief of staff Andrew Card has set up an elaborate vetting system that keeps people from sidling up to the President to suggest or hand anything to him. "They learned a lot from the previous Administration," says a Bush friend intimately familiar with the staff protocols...
...North Side kids, from the more privileged side of the Santa Monica Boulevard line that separated the superrich from the merely wealthy. Abramoff's father Frank had transplanted the family from Atlantic City, N.J., when he became a top executive at the then exclusive Diners Club credit-card company and a protégé of one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends, Diners Club chairman Alfred Bloomingdale...
...were a little, say, heavy-handed with the plastic this holiday season, you may find yourself regretting that behavior when the bills roll in. Why? Banks and credit-card companies must follow new federal guidelines from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that require minimum payments to cover interest and fees plus at least 1% of the principal. For the 7% of consumers who pay only the minimum, that will mean writing fatter checks. But what if you're sick of the whole plastic ride and really want to put a serious dent in your debt? Here...
Nearly 3.5 million people have signed up for the new voter-registration card, but it's unclear if they did so in order to vote or because the card is now required for all state transactions. The majority of the 40,000 pollworkers needed for election day have been recruited but not trained. And even though there are new measures to reduce fraud, including transparent ballot boxes and a new system to count and transmit results, the process may be undermined by inadequate surveillance, logistical trouble and bitter local political rivalries...
There's a new kind of e-card being sent around, but it's an invitation no one ever wants to get. InSPOTLA.org a controversial website launched in mid-December by Los Angeles County, lets people e-mail their sexual partners a free, unsigned Internet postcard--with or without a personal note--stating that the sender has had HIV or another sexually transmitted disease diagnosed and that the recipient should get tested. Targeting gay men who meet online, the program is based on the original inSPOT.org website, which began in San Francisco more than a year ago to combat...