Mr Cruise goes to Washington

[CliffB]

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€ Leave no movie star behind: Church of Scientology cause celeb Tom Cruise
slipped into town this week for private meetings with senior Bush
administration officials at the Department of Education and the White House.
On Thursday, Education Secretary Rod Paige hosted a lunch for Cruise -- a
conspicuous supporter of Bill Clinton before President Bush took office --
so the actor could gab with education officials in the secretary's dining
room. "He wanted to learn more about the president's 'no child left behind'
program,' Education Undersecretary Eugene Hickok told us yesterday. "He was
impressed at how serious it is, and said that anything he could do to help
he would do. He also talked about his own challenges as a child trying to
learn to read." Hickock added: "We're willing to talk to anyone interested
in the issue. I don't think I'm star-struck." But we hear that on Friday at
the White House, where Cruise lobbied officials on Scientology-related
issues, there were plenty of young female staffers standing around, hoping
to bump into him in the corridors of power.

[edonline]

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> ? Leave no movie star behind: Church of Scientology cause celeb Tom Cruise

No reporting sightings of Cruise having lunchh with Barney Frank? ;)

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[CliffB]

in article xwidnbbh39I...@giganews.com, edonline at
edon...@NOSPAMcomcast.net wrote on 6/16/03 9:00 AM:

Barney's a Scientologist? (in addition to being a proctologist?)

[NY to FL Guy]

That's a joke. The white house gone hollywood. When a guy who dropped out of
high school is invited to voice his opinion, and be invited to white house,
something is wrong with this country.