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...Crimson diving corps, made up of only three women, traveled south to the University of Texas at Austin Invitational. The squad finished 14th in Texas at what some billed as "the most competitive meet in the country this weekend...
...there are few criticisms of Baker in Austin, where passions run, if anything, four or five times as high as in Tallahassee, and most of the folks want him to turn the volume up, not down. Besides, say his allies, it's a little ironic that Baker, a man derided by his critics for being the ultimate pragmatist, is now being tagged for showing too much passion. "The normal rap on Baker is that he watches out for himself," says a supporter. "I don't see that here...
...were going to be useless for a while. It was Dick Cheney who came up with the idea of calling Baker out of retirement. He has known Baker since the Ford Administration (when Cheney was White House chief of staff), and Baker spent election night in Cheney's Austin, Texas, hotel suite. It has not been lost on Bush loyalists, attuned to signs of who's really in charge, that Cheney decided who was going to Tallahassee, Fla., in the critical first few hours of Nov. 8. "At first it was going to be Karl Rove with some lawyers," said...
...would like to serve as Vice President. If the younger Bush eventually enters the White House, Cheney promises to be an even more influential Vice President than, well, Al Gore. As head of the informal transition team, Cheney has been making regular trips to Bush's ranch outside Austin, Texas, to start shaping a potential Cabinet. In the excitement about the vote in Florida, he and James Baker are George W.'s chief strategists. It was Cheney who brought in Baker in the first place, and the two men hold a daily conference call with Bush that is George...
...talk shows, in the Beltway, in outer Republican circles, absolutely - its started already. But not in Austin. George W. Bush, in his pool-camera photo-op Monday after the Supreme Court non-ruling, stopped resolutely short of Dick Cheney's "I do think he should concede" statement on Sunday. And Bush, so slow to the microphone throughout the legal wrangling, won't be at all tempted to join Cheney on the hard line now. He can afford to be quiet...