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...Senator John McCain had crafted over the last year. The business lobby was not shy about taking credit. "We got him to introduce it," says Reiff, "because he's a Republican." When it came time for final passage, Specter literally produced gasps in the hearing room as he cast the final vote in favor of the bill himself, giving it extra momentum as it heads to the floor...
...Until the final votes were cast, few thought it would come out this way. After the morning session, Ohio's Mike DeWine was, like most observers, bemused by the chaos. Senators were pushing numerous amendments, offering second-degree amendments on top of them, then retracting the packages altogether. "Usually I can get a feel for how something's going to go, but I can't figure this one out," DeWine said. "It's not clear to me at all what this bill is going to look like...
After languishing for years in TV- movieland, most of the West Beverly High class of '93--that is, the original cast of Beverly Hills, 90210--scored new shows this season. Next up is Tori Spelling, whose sitcom so noTORIous debuts April 2. We rate their success on a counterintuitive scale of cracked TVs: one TV means they've gone on to great (O.K., good) things. Four TVs? Back to detention...
...Thief is about the moral choices of immoral men," says creator Norman Morrill, which is why he cast Braugher. It's a well-observed, sometimes too somber character study, its Southern-gothic mournfulness underscored not just by Braugher's tough, sad performance but also by the setting: post-Katrina New Orleans, littered with abandoned cars and LOOTERS WILL BE SHOT signs spray-painted on plywood. (The show was set and the pilot shot in the city a year before the hurricane.) Like his town, Nick has to restore order from the rubble, and it's not a glamorous job. "This...
...presidential ambitions as well. Indeed, his new willingness to negotiate came just hours after Interior Minister and fellow presidential aspirant Nicolas Sarkozy moved to carefully distance himself from de Villepin. Though expressing his general "solidarity" with the government in an interview with the weekly Paris Match, Sarkozy then cast himself as the understanding ally of French youth, who - unlike de Villepin - knows "you should never break the line of dialogue in a complex country like France...