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...after the speech, Bush will jet to Nashville to try and keep selling his agenda. And next week, he?ll release his budget, which will lay out in hundreds of pages of detail-without the speech's soaring rhetoric or theatrics-where the White House's priorities really lie...
...reality participants think the enhancement amounts to a lie, they have little recourse, since they usually sign a thick stack of waivers. On The Amazing Race last year, Jonathan Baker savagely berated his wife Victoria Fuller and alienated fellow contestants and service workers around the globe. But Baker says his villainy was trumped up in the editing room. One episode showed him appearing to be kicked out of a cab after browbeating the driver. Really, Baker says, the driver had an accident and couldn't continue. "I got the worst rap of anyone in reality television ever," Baker says...
...MILLION LITTLE PIECES Thou shalt not lie to OPRAH WINFREY. In a tone generally reserved for condemning genocidal dictators, the talk-show host drove home that commandment of publishing by shredding author JAMES FREY on live TV for fabricating parts of his 2003 book, A Million Little Pieces. "I really feel duped," said Winfrey, who chose the memoir for her book club, boosting it to last year's second-best-selling title. After thesmokinggun.com revealed that key details in the book--like Frey's claim of a three-month prison stay--never happened, Winfrey stood by him, calling...
...would allow him to employ up to 40 people. "When this greenhouse gets going," says Pancho, "I hope to be able to save many people from having to go to the Hamptons, myself included." Right now, however, the several plots of land he bought in the hills outside Tuxpan lie fallow. Applying for the loans proved more complicated than Pancho anticipated, and he has no backup plan. He ended up spending much of a recent visit to Tuxpan driving his beat-up Dodge Caravan around town, drinking with old friends, trying to figure out how to raise more money...
...Bill the boss has the support of his family, which controls 40% of the company's voting shares, worth about $1.2 billion. If there is friction, it may lie in the rivalry between Ford and his cousin Edsel, the son of Henry II, who lost out in the race for the chairman's job after a lengthy competition. Edsel, who is chairman of the Salvation Army, has said he backs Bill. Edsel's wife Cynthia says, "It's frustrating that they talk about this 'thing' with Edsel because it couldn't be farther from the truth. The family totally supports...