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...rose to be the second-ranking Republican in the House, with a real chance of one day becoming Speaker. But when President Bush in 1989 asked him to be Secretary of Defense instead, he leaped at the offer. Even when he was in the House, Cheney displayed a strong bent - atypical in that chamber - for Executive privilege. In the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress had moved aggressively to trim back presidential powers and expand its own. Cheney was opposed. In 1987 he was the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, which concluded that Ronald Reagan...
...million voters who elected liberal lawyer Roh Moo Hyun as South Korea's new President last week, is concerned about homeland security. He ought to be. North Korea is trying to arm itself with nuclear missiles and seems bent on forcing a showdown with the U.S., which wants to strip the North of its weapons of mass destruction and appears willing to risk war to do so. But during a noisy Seoul street party celebrating Roh's cliff-hanger Dec. 19 victory, Kim, a 26-year-old publishing company employee, says he's not worried about the North...
...recognition - and goodwill - among key Republicans during his extremely successful stint as the head of the GOP Senatorial Campaign Committee. A Harvard-trained heart surgeon Frist votes a very conservative line on most issues, but is known to depart from his party's position on issues with a scientific bent, including stem cell research and extending care for AIDS patients. He is the only physician currently serving in the Senate, and his colleagues often depend on his opinion when considering votes on medical issues...
Sorrowful, defiant, astonished, lonely, thoughtful, humiliated, triumphant. Photographers captured the full range of moods in their subjects. An aging prelate, bent and frail, visited his homeland; an American President, coatless and determined, rallied his troops. In the Middle East, where few things shock, a Palestinian leader stared bug-eyed at his bed, speckled with debris after an Israeli attack. A teenager from Great Neck, N.Y., skated off the Olympic ice into the arms of her coach, with a look that told all the world she was a winner. And in the most touching coda to the year, a young widow...
...head of the GOP Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Tennessee Senator is in very good stead with his fellow party members. A heart surgeon by training, Frist, who votes a very conservative line on most issues, is known to depart from his party's position on issues with a scientific bent, including stem cell research and extending care for AIDS patients...