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...James with former President George H. W. Bush and a picture of his sister Elisabeth's daughter. And the guy sitting behind the desk looks like he's maturing as well, crisply attired in slacks and a dress shirt, his sleeves rolled up, his glasses now encased in stylish wire frames. Gone are the scraggly hair and Buddy Holly glasses?the latter banished by order of his girlfriend, now his wife, Kathryn Hufschmid...
...President's a Hunk All along, we thought taiwanese President and dpp leader Chen Shui-bian's rise to political prominence was due to his steely competence. This was a man, his smug eagerness and wire-frame spectacles seemed to say, who could solve Taiwan's problems as easily as he performed differential calculus. He never actually wore a slide rule in his pocket, but we knew it was there, in spirit at least, close to his heart. Two years and a few gdp contractions later, that aura of can-do confidence has been chipped away and we are left...
...Wire reports from the Associated Press were used in the compilation of this story...
...will that company do about as well as it had been doing? If there haven't been any new hotels built and people are traveling again, the odds are pretty high that a high-end hotel will prosper. If it's in telecom, where wireless may have substituted for wire line, things will have changed...
...None of those threats were proved to have come from Michael Abram, but it was Abram, a 33-year-old Beatle obsessive from a Liverpool suburb, who, in the dead of night on Dec. 30, 1999, got past the alarms and razor wire at Friar Park and broke into the Harrisons' mansion. George suffered an inch-deep stab wound to his chest before Olivia knocked Abram down with a bedside lamp. Harrison recovered, and Abram was sent to a mental institution...