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...Bush then muffled the speaker and conferred privately with an aide. A few snatches of conversation were audible: "burnish your image," "approval ratings at an all-time nadir," and, from Bush, "But didn't that seat-belt guy help us win in Florida...
...this family does not fit their legal definition of family. The couple pleaded with the city council to change the law. The city said no, and intends to evict. When this news broke, many assumed Black Jack must be one of those white, religious conservative towns in the Bible Belt. But Black Jack turned out to be a suburb of St. Louis, and it?s 70% African American. Their enforcement of the zoning doesn't seem to be motivated by race or religion-just a genuine desire to preserve the pro-family environment...
...editors: Regarding your story about the president’s aide admitted to the Business School with one year of college under his belt (“Bush’s Personal Aide to Enroll at Business School,” news, May 22). I’m looking through the story to see where the punch line is, for the byline “by theonion.com,” or evidence of the Lampoon’s latest gag. I’m not seeing it anywhere. STEVE C. SHIUE ’86 Plano, Texas...
Katrina hit just as the farm belt wasgearing up for the fall harvest, and exporters may be forced to find ways around the blocked shipping channels in the lower Mississippi--a critical conduit for agricultural products. The U.S. exports about $600 billion in cargo through ports that were hit by the hurricane, and some 2,000-ton barges are literally stuck in the mud, says Larry Daily, president of Alter Barge Lines. "It's like you've clogged the pipeline for a week." Archer Daniels Midland, a major grain exporter, operates four grain terminals in Louisiana. Several hundred...
...Howard government has decided to cut taxes early and hope that there's even more money to entice voters next time (probably the so-called Battlers, who don't pay any tax when you apply a broad definition). The thinking is that money in the pockets of mortgage belt-families is needed right now. Petrol prices are high (by the standards to which Australians see as their birth right) and are not expected to ease for some time. The Reserve Bank's move on interest rates last week has made suburban families in the south-eastern States uneasy, particularly...