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...will back the new plan. Even Ohio Representative John Boehner, who has been the most vocal Republican supporter of the act, has refused to endorse Bush's proposal. Said a senior House Republican aide: "I think the White House is aware it has some selling to do." --By Perry Bacon...
...daunting. "Part of my effort," he told TIME last month, "is going to have to be to convince [Republicans] that taking it on is the right thing to do." But that might be easy for Bush to say. He doesn't have to run again. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Massimo Calabresi and Matthew Cooper/ Washington and Daren Fonda/ New York...
...NAME? Toyota Canada's special edition Celica Tsunami, available in color schemes like "thundercloud" and promising a "new wave of bold style," was renamed the Celica Sports Package last week out of sensitivity to the tsunami victims. Across the Atlantic, South African food franchise Mugg and Bean dropped its bacon-and-Thai-sauce Tsunami chicken burger (although it plans to revive a renamed sandwich in April...
...unfazed. Education Department officials called the contract "a permissible use of taxpayer funds." This despite two recent Government Accountability Office rulings that the Administration broke antipropaganda laws when it disguised promotional spots--on federal drug policy and the new Medicare prescription-drug law-- as TV-news segments. --By Perry Bacon...
...order that any G-men who visited the CIA outpost should read the debriefing reports but stay out of the interrogation room. Abu Zubaydah soon began to sing and, among other things, quickly fingered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, Matthew Cooper, Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington and Mitch Frank/New York