Word: carriers
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...wake of Bush's flying stunt, a new and unfair test was proposed by journalists--the aircraft-carrier primary: Which of the Democrats could have duplicated Bush's photo op without seeming foolish? Not Lieberman, and certainly not Dean. John Edwards and Dick Gephardt are plausible flyboys, and Bob Graham might have been at one time. No, Kerry wins this contest hands down. His military record is his ticket to this dance. On the day before the debate, Kerry did something no other Democrat in the race could do. He gave a moving tribute, surrounded by Vietnam combat veterans...
...first steps. But what is to be done with the old bosses who were in tight with a cruel regime? Under Saddam, most high-and mid-level government officials joined the ruling Baath Party to advance their careers, as did many lower-level officials, including every police officer, letter carrier and teacher. Excluding all 1.5 million party members from the new government would mean shutting out virtually every public servant, precisely the people who know how to get things running again. "You cannot use this phrase," says Tim Carney, a former U.S. diplomat who is helping Iraq restart its industries...
...Bush will spend nearly $300 million trying to get re-elected in 2004, but nothing he buys will come close, in sheer political capital, to what he deposited in his campaign bank last week: the perfect presidential photo op. The scene, of Bush's landing aboard an aircraft carrier in a Navy jet and then strutting across the deck outfitted in a jump suit, "will be the moment of George W. Bush's presidency," predicts Mike Deaver, the master imagemaker to Ronald Reagan...
...took no small amount of jostling to get there. Though the White House first insisted that Bush had to fly in a jet, rather than the customary helicopter, because the carrier would be hundreds of miles out to sea, that turned out not to be true: the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was just 39 miles from shore. (Still, Bush spent part of last Tuesday taking a water-emergency training course at the White House pool, in case he was forced to eject into the Pacific.) Then there was the carrier's position, which had to be tilted to obscure any view...
...tentative new deal, which Harvard lawyers and state transportation authorities will review over the next few days, would transfer easements currently held by CSX, a private freight carrier, to the MBTA—giving the transportation agency rights to the land if CSX abandons the easements they currently hold on the parcel...