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...Capitol Hill, the impression of Powell's deflation has set tongues wagging. "He's been largely invisible," says a top Democratic Senate aide. At the White House, officials don't even pretend Powell is Bush's primary foreign policy person. "The President has a talented group of advisers," says a senior official, as if the general-hero brought no special luster. "Powell is one of them...
...previous roles, the more elusive Powell's essential beliefs seemed, the more his stature grew. In this job, it's the opposite. So he must step into the spotlight, at least now and again. Admirers from Capitol Hill to the capitals of Europe like to say the great man is just biding his time. "He's playing for the long term," says a close friend. "There is a real danger in underestimating Colin. In time this will all be taken care of." A longtime former military pal says, "His idea is to wait until the conservatives screw up, and then...
That's not the only question to which Bush's proposal will be subjected on Capitol Hill, starting with hearings this week before the Senate Health Committee. Lawmakers also want to know whether patents and other legal obstacles will restrict use of the cell lines and whether they might have been tainted by exposure to mouse cells and bovine serum. G.O.P. Senator Arlen Specter says the doubts that researchers are raising about their own work makes it "a fair pending question" whether political pressure is distorting what should be an ethical and scientific debate. At a minimum, the issue seems...
...Kill a Mockingbird. And former librarian Laura Bush is using the clout of her new job to get a few notable authors to read out loud in Washington. As host of the first National Book Festival, this weekend, the First Lady will oversee an all-day affair on the Capitol lawn with readings, music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright Larry L. King (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), short-story writer J. California Cooper, historian John Hope Franklin...
...Tennessee the tax debate got even uglier. Republican Governor Don Sundquist lobbied his legislature in June to impose the first-ever state income tax. Antitax protesters, egged on by a talk-radio host, surrounded the capitol, banging on the doors, throwing rocks through windows and scaring legislators into dropping the new tax. Instead they used the state's $560 million share of the national tobacco settlement to balance the books. More than a dozen states have tapped rainy-day funds or tobacco money...