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...Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything but Social Security," declaimed DeLay at the launch. Yet just hours later, the Republican-led Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the GOP's current spending plan for next year would siphon at least $18 billion of the fund's surplus. And that, it said, was a conservative estimate. DeLay and the rest of the GOP leadership had little to say about the apparently glaring contradiction; the GOP rank and file sound worried. Under nocircumstances? "That's kind of an absolute statement...
...media world, there was one event this summer that overshadowed the rest--the launch of Talk magazine. Now Talk has followed up the first effort with a second issue as it looks to secure a future on the racks at Barnes and Nobles around the country, not just in the fickle Beltway buzz...
...heard any whispers about its release. The first issue, with Hillary Clinton making excuses for Bill's unfaithfulness and George W. quoted mocking a death-row inmate and using a potty mouth, attracted so much media attention before it was even available that Talk had almost guaranteed a successful launch. Editor Tina Brown, the former New Yorker editor, became the talk of the town (pun intended) as she reveled in the glory of having every soul in Washington, New York and Los Angeles giddy with anticipation over the first issue...
...things the public schools can do is to launch a PR campaign," says school committee member Robin Harris, who is assistant principal at the Banneker Charter School. "There are some wonderful things happening in the public schools that the average parents is not aware...
...Internet," Newmark started his service in 1995 as an e-mail list of cool events. But now his site is getting 5 million hits a month, and he's relocating his five-person office from his Haight-Ashbury dining room to a nearby church and planning to launch a New York City branch. He could make much more money, but he won't accept advertisements...