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September 17, 2012 | | SO YOU WANT TO BUY A PRESIDENT? From Hollywood movie producers to hedge funders and hotel execs, these are the president’s biggest ‘bundlers.’ An interactive guide. WINNING Maybe bigger screens are better. The new iPhone 5 broke sales records when it was made available for preorder on Friday. Apple says that customers placed more than 2 million orders for the phone on its first day, easily beating out its predecessors. The iPhone 4S received 1 million preorders on its first day last year, while the iPhone 4 had only 600,000 on its first day. Sales were so brisk for the new device that Apple had to start delaying deliveries just over an hour after it began accepting preorders. Apple is expected to sell 6 to 8 million phones when the device is released this weekend. HE WON’T BE BACK He's fishing for a career revival with a juicy autobiography, but it may be too late to salvage his name. Laurence Leamer reveals the messy drama that brought down the Governator—including new details on how Maria Shriver apparently found out about his affair and his alleged refusal to continue couples therapy with her. Campaign 2012 A top Mitt Romney adviser has admitted that the campaign has not given enough specifics about the candidate’s policy plans and vowed to be more specific in the remaining 50 days. Ed Gillespie said that recent polling has indicated that voters want to hear more from Romney about his own plans. “We are not rolling out new policy so much as we are making sure people understand that when we say we can do these things, here’s how we are going to get them done and these are the specifics.” He promised that the rest of the campaign season would see “new emphasis and renewed emphasis” on Romney’s approach to governing. MOLESTATION The Boy Scouts of America hid sex abuse committed among its ranks over more than twenty years, according to the Los Angeles Times. The paper reviewed instances of abuse documented in confidential files that date from the years 1970 to 1991, part of a collection of files maintained by the organization that chronicles allegations of molestation going back decades. The Times reported that in 80 percent of the cases documented in the years it obtained files for, the alleged abuse was never reported to law enforcement. The paper also reported that in several instances alleged sex abusers were able to circumvent the Boy Scouts’ blacklist and remain active in the organization. | | 
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