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...secret that COLIN POWELL is ready to hang up his pinstripes. But far less clear is where Bush will turn for his new top diplomat. One possibility is JOHN DANFORTH, the current ambassador to the U.N. He has support on Capitol Hill (where he served three terms as Senator from Missouri) and has won praise for pushing the Sudanese close to a peace deal after three years of negotiations. Another candidate is CONDOLEEZZA RICE. As National Security Adviser, she has dealt with virtually every foreign leader who matters but draws her influence more from her proximity to the Oval Office...
...attended Wake Forest University, then went to work for a wholesaler of outdoor power equipment. In 1992 he made an abrupt career switch. Alarmed, as he tells it, at high taxes, he ran for Congress--and lost. In 1994 he tried again, this time riding the Gingrich tsunami to Capitol Hill...
Roupas, the chairman of the College Republicans in Washington, D.C., started Election Day at 6 a.m., driving from campus to the RNC building on Capitol Hill. A campaign event coordinator, he planned several budgets before racing back to GW for a presentation in his political communications class, followed by an afternoon finance midterm. At 5 p.m. he was back at the RNC for last-minute phonebanking...
...tone deaf in responding to the crisis. Not long after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asked doctors to vaccinate only those at highest risk of deadly complications--people over 65, pregnant women, young children and patients with chronic medical conditions--the office of Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol's attending physician, was still freely dispensing vaccine. Some House and Senate members defended the practice on the grounds they meet a lot of elderly and sick people and shake a lot of hands--despite the fact that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced that they, as healthy, civic...
...Pentagon that morning, President Bush, who had been reading to schoolchildren in Sarasota, Fla., phoned Vice President Dick Cheney from his cabin in Air Force One. "We're at war," he said. As the President's plane was taking off over Florida, Kerry strode down the steps of the Capitol in Washington, having received orders to evacuate. In an interview with the New York Times, Kerry recalled scanning the skies for incoming aircraft as he left the building. He turned to someone near him. "This is war," Kerry remembers saying. "This...