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...They found out during Bush's first session, when push came to shove on tort reform--a package of bills designed to rein in what Bush called "junk lawsuits that clog our courts." While it wasn't clear that frivolous lawsuits were out of control, business groups looking to limit their liability had for years been pouring money into the issue, helping create a pro-tort reform majority in the state senate. (The groups gave generously to Bush. In his two gubernatorial campaigns, he collected $4.1 million from tort-reform lobbyists, according to the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice...
...Bush is mainly preoccupied, even more than many of his G.O.P. brethren, with further restricting access to the welfare system, which pays an average of $188 a month to poor families, making it one of the stingiest in the country. In 1995 Bush pushed for a two-year time limit on welfare recipients, with no opportunity to reapply. In 1995 and 1997 he wanted so-called family caps, in which those with two or more children would not receive additional assistance if they had another child. And in 1999 he opposed a large expansion of the federally funded Children...
...certain is that Iran's Sixth Majlis will have more reform faces like Reza Khatami's. The candidate candidly admits that the revolution made some mistakes. He advocates free speech, even if it challenges clerical rule, and expresses little fear of globalization. "One response to globalization is to limit new technologies without really understanding them," he says. "Another is to learn about them and interact with them. We want to interact." The Great Satan? When an American reporter asks to accompany him on his campaign trip, it takes Khatami 10 seconds to smile and say, "Sure, come along." The look...
...himself in print trying to explain it: "I go to Ralphs often. Do I get recognized? Once in a while. But the groceries still need to be in my home, so I persevere." I offer to pay for all his groceries in a once-off, anything-goes, no-time-limit Supermarket Sweep run. Even though he made $20 million for his new movie, The Beach, DiCaprio finds this impossible to refuse. Still, he is hyper-aware of how this will play out in print: "That should be the title of the piece: 'Leonardo DiCaprio: What's His Beef...
...with many diseases, you can help yourself by changing your lifestyle. The first things you should do are quit smoking, limit your intake of alcohol to no more than a drink or two a day and increase your physical activity. Even those who suffer from high blood pressure or diabetes can improve their odds--and minimize complications if they do have a stroke--by keeping their illness under control...