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Text Of Speech By Jenna And Barbara Bush

• It's great to be here. We love Arnold. Isn't he awesome?
• Thanks to him, if one of us ever decides to marry a Democrat, nobody can complain, except maybe our grandmother, Barbara. And if she doesn't like it, we would definitely hear about it.
• We already know she doesn't like some of our clothes, our music, or most of the TV shows we watch.
• Gammie, we love you dearly, but you're just not very hip. She thinks "Sex and the City" is something married people do, but never talk about...
• We kept trying to explain to my dad that when we are young and irresponsible, well, we're young and irresponsible...
• Besides, since we've graduated from college, we're looking around for something to do for the next few years...
• When your dad's a Republican and you go to Yale, you learn to stand up for yourself...
• You know all those times when you're growing up and your parents embarrass you? Well, this is payback time on live TV...
• And we had a hamster, too. Let's just say ours didn't make it...

Reed Confirms Fees From Indian Casino Lobbyists

Ralph Reed, Southeast regional chairman of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign and former executive director of the Christian Coalition, confirmed on Sunday that he accepted more than $1 million in fees from a lobbyist and a public relations specialist whose work on behalf of American Indian casinos prompted a federal investigation....

[Reed's] Atlanta-based Century Strategies worked on behalf of casinos seeking to prevent other tribes from opening competitive gambling facilities. Century Strategies mobilized ministers and Christian activists to lobby against the new facilities.

Doctors Grow New Jaw In Man's Back

The operation was done by Dr. Patrick Warnke, a reconstructive facial surgeon at the University of Kiel in Germany. The patient, a 56-year-old man, had his lower jaw and half his tongue cut out almost a decade ago after getting mouth cancer.... Warnke and his group began by creating a virtual jaw on a computer, after making a three-dimensional scan of the patient's mouth. The information was used to create a thin titanium micro-mesh cage....

The surgeons then implanted the mesh cage and its contents into the muscle below the patient's right shoulder blade.... The implant was left in for seven weeks, when scans showed new bone formation. It was removed about eight weeks ago, along with some surrounding muscle and blood vessels, put in the man's mouth and connected to the blood vessels in his neck.... Four weeks after the operation, the man ate a German sausage sandwich, his first real meal in nine years.

'Naked' Unsuitable For GOP Delegates

[New York City's] tourist bureau has pulled an off-Broadway show called "Naked Boys Singing" from a list of discounted offerings to visiting Republican delegates, after the Republican National Committee complained it wasn't suitable....

"The Republican Party selected what we felt were offers that would best suit our audience," RNC spokesman Leonard Alcivar said Wednesday.

Sussex Family Sues Boy Scouts In 'Spaghetti Spat'

[New Jersey] According to the suit, filed Aug. 23 in Newton Superior Court, during a three-day campout in Sandy Hook with Troop 404 in May, 11-year-old Robbie Kent tried to sprinkle some parmesan on his pasta, but the cheese had "formed a large, ball-like chunk," according to legal papers.

When Robbie opened the top of the can to unglue the ball of cheese, it all dropped on his spaghetti.

Troop Leader William O'Mealy told Robbie "not to get up until he ate all of the cheese," the suit alleges. The suit also alleges O'Mealy said Robbie was "wasting troop money...."

After the cheese incident, Robbie's parents, Timothy and Adahyliah Kent, requested a meeting with troop leaders. At the end, all three were kicked out of the troop, the suit said.