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...an uptight pastor (Footloose), a friendly extraterrestrial (Third Rock from the Sun), a serial killer (Dexter), a cartoon lord (Shrek), a prime minister (Winston Churchill in The Crown) and a president (Bill...
...(FT) Chuck Yeager dies aged 97 US test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier, has died aged 97....
...residents, who, over the years, have included the late Harold Washington, Chicago’s first African-American mayor; Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer; Milton Friedman, the father of free market economics; and Bill...
...We had a great actor in Biff Yeager, who (I think) gave Django Kill’s Roberto Camardiel a run for his money in the white-suited rancher-villain role....
...She was quickly promoted, becoming one of just two female captains in New York’s four-star restaurants, responsible for explaining the menu, taking orders, selling and serving wine, and bringing the bill...
...But his experience in Chicago politics, as a DCCC staffer, and working for Bill Clinton as a fundraiser and top White House aide, made him perfect for the job....
...Bill Frist, Republican majority leader, is retiring from the Senate and Mitch McConnell, his deputy, will take over in January as minority leader....
...Bush signed the $286bn highways bill into law. Mr Hastert had inserted a $207m earmark (a tailored clause) into the bill to fund a public highway in Illinois that runs three miles from his property....
...Bill Richardson, governor of New Mexico, said: “Republicans lost the gains they made among Hispanics by the harshness of their tone and policies on immigration, particularly the bill to erect a wall between...
...Bill Frist, the retiring Republican Senate leader, was barely seen on the campaign trail having acquitted his leadership poorly on Capitol Hill....
...With a bipartisan vote, the House approved last year the expansion of federal funding, and was expected to act quickly to approve the other two bills....
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...In the Senate, Bill Frist, the Republican majority leader, is retiring at the end of this term. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is expected to become the leader of the Republican minority in January....
...But James Carville, a top strategist for former President Bill Clinton, put the battle back in the public eye....
...“Before this bill, nobody cared about China currency,” he said. “Now it is front and centre.” Mr Graham said President George W....
...In Tennessee, the race to succeed Bill Frist, the Republican majority leader who is giving up his seat, has become a nasty contest....
...Bill Frist, Republican majority leader, said he and his colleagues had spent hours grappling with the issue....
...Bill Frist, Republican majority leader in the Senate, is expected to use the same tactic to speed passage of the measures....
...Passage of the bill marked a significant accomplishment for Congress ahead of lawmakers’ August recess, given the complexity of the issues and the broad scope of the bill, but business reaction was mixed...
...“So on virtually hundreds of bills, their concerns were dealt with to put the bill in a position where he could sign it.”...
...In addition to the bill that passed the House last year, the Senate will also consider two related, but less controversial measures....
...The first adverts praised some lawmakers for their support of the Medicare prescription drug bill....
...House Republicans have also scheduled 21 hearings in 13 states to highlight what they say are the shortcomings of an immigration bill passed by the Senate....
...The people behind HotSoup – including Joe Lockhart, Bill Clinton’s former press secretary, Mark McKinnon, who directed Mr Bush’s advertising campaigns, and Carter Eskew, chief strategist for Al Gore’s 2000...
...Before the vote, Mr Bush vowed to “resist any bill that does not enable this [CIA] programme to go forward with legal clarity”....
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