Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Bush = Big Brother? Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy blasted the president last week for authorizing wiretaps on U.S. citizens without a court order, but said that’s not all the Bush administration is doing to restrict American freedoms. In a Boston Globe op-ed, …
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WASHINGTON – Security has become so bad in Iraq that many reconstruction, assistance and growth efforts are falling by the wayside. As recently as Tuesday, officials said oil exports to neighboring Turkey have been suspended. Exports are lower now than when former dictator Saddam Hussein (search) was in power and …
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To watch “The Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. Government corruption at the highest level. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. The capitulation of Senator Robert Torricelli is the result of the folks, pure and simple. If it were …
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Lord of The Rings |Gangs|George Clooney |Sam Rockwell |Jack Nicholson|Golden Globes Hobbits Hobble Box Office as Rings Sings Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers took in $61 million over the weekend and went over the magic $100 million mark in five days. The Peter Jackson sequel to Fellowship of …
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NEW YORK – Computer-generated aliens of Men in Black II dazzlewith their inhuman feats. Spider-Man‘s digital doubleswings among skyscrapers at breakneck speed. And the CGI Yoda in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones stages a fight the original puppet nevercould have managed. MIB II, which opens July 3, is just …
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Michael Jackson Jacko May Claim ‘Threats’ by Mottola The Michael Jackson–Tommy Mottola standoff is heading into new territory. A serious source close to Jackson told me yesterday: “There is correspondence between Michael and Tommy that will show why Michael has done what he’s done. When it comes out it will …
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Bruce Springsteen Springsteen Album Rises to No. 1 All the sales for last week haven’t been counted yet, but by last night it seemed that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Bandwill beNo. 1 on the album charts tomorrow with The Rising. So far, according to Hitsdailydouble.com, The Boss has …
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Will & Grace and Matt, Project Greenlight| Gerry| Better Luck Tomorrow and Paradox Lake Will & Grace and Matt; Plus Sundance Premieres Project Greenlight Movie Sundance got the real celeb star treatmentSaturday as Jennifer Anistoncame to town with her new movie — The Good Girl— and her newish husband Brad …
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NEW YORK – Since a group of frisky, middle-aged British women posed in the buff for a 1999 calendar, the trend of marking the months by baring it all has really, um,taken off. At least three different calendars featuring ordinary folks in their birthday suits will help spice up 2003: …
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I am going to make a prediction: Alan Greenspan won’t be raising interest rates. I know experts are saying by May, maybe June, he’ll start ramping them up, but I don’t see it. Not that Greenspan isn’t worried about inflation. But he just doesn’t want to do anything stupid. And …
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