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...president-elect heads to the Crawford ranch for the weekend, his nascent cabinet is now three-quarters full. And the latest four picks are a very representative sample of the process so far: One Republican star, two people you've never heard of, one who's been pre-leaked for weeks, and one who's already held...
...Bush is more than half-done himself, and he predicted he'd have a full complement of Cabinet members and appointees by the end of next week. ("Don't hold me to it, though," he said hastily.) And he's starting to look comfortable talking like a president - taking questions sure doesn't scare him like it used to, and the buzzwords don't jar the ears like they used to. The mantle may be growing...
...while the Israelis would have sovereignty over the Western Wall (the only remaining piece of the Second Temple). The proposal also calls for the resettlement of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Palestinian-controlled land rather than in Israel. And so Barak went back to Jerusalem to huddle with his cabinet and security chiefs, and Arafat went off to Cairo by himself...
...been fast and, so far, deft: Three women. Two blacks. One Hispanic. Five white guys. George W. Bush is about half done with his Cabinet and if you look past the names, the range and the diversity, the gist so far is pragmatic and pro-business - with plenty of hands-on Washington experience...
...Whitman (who is heading for the the EPA) and on the right by John Ashcroft, who Bush named last week to be his attorney general. Bush had been thinking about Ashcroft for nearly a month, but a senior Bush official told TIME.com on Saturday that the more moderate the Cabinet became last week, the more sense it made to mollify conservatives in one fell swoop. Democrats will concentrate their fire on the Missouri Republican, whose almost-pure brand of conservatism guarantees a sea change at the Department of Justice. But barring a surprise, even Democrats expect Ashcroft will be confirmed...