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...situation is particularly tricky for Republicans, many of whom are now invoking the ultimate G.O.P. heresy--tax hikes. While President Bush held a rally last week near Arkansas' state capitol to drum up support for his tax cuts, a few blocks away, at nearly the same hour, Republican Governor Mike Huckabee was imploring his balky legislature to support a tax raise. "I envy his position of being able to come to Little Rock and preach tax cuts while I preach a tax increase," Huckabee told TIME. "He has a tool that I do not have, called deficit spending...
...revelations gave the Times a hard shove into the company of the nation's other great but occasionally humbled papers: the Boston Globe, whose columnists Mike Barnicle and Patricia Smith resigned in 1998 after charges of serial plagiarism; the Wall Street Journal, whose financial columnist R. Foster Winans was convicted on 59 counts of conspiracy and fraud in 1985 for using his articles to make money in the stock market; and the Washington Post, which had to return the 1981 Pulitzer Prize won by reporter Janet Cooke for the haunting story of Jimmy, the 8-year-old heroin addict...
...good idea to meet a woman at a strip club, then leave her alone in your hotel room while you play a round of golf. That ought to be an easy one to remember, yet it's one that recently hired--and recently fired--football coach Mike Price of the University of Alabama apparently forgot...
...claims she merely helped him back to the hotel. No matter why she was there, the next morning, while he was golfing, she teed up $1,000 of room service. When the story got out, Price was sacked, forfeiting a seven-year, $10 million contract. Miami Dolphins quarterback coach Mike Shula--son of NFL nobleman Don Shula--was hired last week to replace...
...Development," a wealthy, eccentric family gets into trouble with the SEC and starts to come apart at the seams. In the midseason "Cracking Up," a psychology student is assigned to live with a rich family, whose members turn out to be sociopaths, obsessives or just creepy. It's from Mike White, who created the fantastic 2001 "Pasadena" for Fox, and it seems basically like that soap opera's twisted-rich story rewritten as a comedy - let's hope it fares better the second time. Finally, there's "The Ortegas," a talk-show within-a-sitcom about a family that builds...