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...name is not Gordon.' MICHAEL DOUGLAS, actor, referring to Gordon Gekko, his character in 1987's Wall Street, when asked about the financial crisis and whether "greed ... is good...
...really am only time will tell," Prince sings on--and writes in--his newest album. He may be right. What with the name change, the excessive cosmetics and the shoe collection, Prince is by some standards bizarre enough to be dismissed as a freak. But weigh all that against his 2007 Super Bowl performance, the shelf life of his hits and his early adoption of the Internet as a vehicle for selling music, and suddenly he could be a visionary genius...
...have to endure a lot of teasing about your name when you were growing up? Dee Thompson, ATLANTA...
...Another conservative activist, who works in state government and worries that using his name will cost him his job, charges that McCain has gone out of his way to disrespect the conservative grass roots. Ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention, he says, Senator McCain personally called several conservative delegates to try to rescind their invitations to the New York City gathering. The source says, "He wanted his own hand-picked people to go to the convention, to be the bestower," even though the grass-roots party members had done most of the grunt work in organizing and mobilizing...
...hard-line crowd is irrational. They want to incite people to fear, and that is a dangerous thing to watch." Says ASU's Berman: "These guys are not easy to please. These guys were even after [conservative icon Barry] Goldwater for a while. They wanted to strip his name off party headquarters. You really have to toe the line...