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Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines has been ordered to cut another check to her estranged husband, Adrian Pasdar, in their ongoing divorce battle...Pasdar had been seeking $350,000 in legal fees, and he was awarded $200,000 back in April...Pasdar has also been after $40,076 a month in spousal and $16,427 in child support, for a total of $60,503 a month. He is also asking for $361,494 in retroactive child support

GAO Warns of Dangerous DeficitNewsMax.com WiresThursday, Sept 18, 2003 WASHINGTON -- The head of Congress' investigative arm warned Wednesday that the United States faces "large and growing structural deficits," which, if not soon addressed, could lead to "a dangerous budgetary and economic spiral that would ultimately hurt every American." "Our nation has a major long-term fiscal challenge that is not going away, and requires serious and sustained attention," David Walker, U.S. comptroller general and head of the General Accounting Office, said Wednesday at a luncheon at Washington's National Press Club. This challenge -- more than $7 trillion in accumulated...