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...deliver. Though Bush promised $15 billion in AIDS funding over five years, the first year's funding did not meet expectations. On education, his signature bipartisan accomplishment, Congress has not come up with the money that education experts say it will take to truly leave no child behind. Democratic Congressman George Miller and Senator Ted Kennedy, both of whom had done business with Bush and became symbols of Bush's early willingness to reach across party lines, are now bitter opponents of the White House...
...they were hooked. By 2000, MoveOn.org was raising $2 million for Democratic candidates, including more than $100,000 to help California's Adam Schiff beat Congressman James Rogan, one of the House managers during Clinton's impeachment trial. In mid-to late 2002, as the Iraq war loomed, the MoveOn e-mail list doubled, to 1 million. Wes and Joan hooked up with Zack Exley, whose parody campaign 2000 website, GWBush.com caused candidate Bush to declare, "There ought to be some limits to freedom"; and Eli Pariser, 22, a New Yorker whose post-9/11 e-mail petition for peace...
...domestic American politics turn this skirmish into an all-out trade war? The U.S. faces an expected $130 billion trade deficit with China this year. Protectionists in the U.S. Congress have already floated a bill to end permanent normal trade relations. "This really boils down to jobs," says Pennsylvania Congressman Phil English, a supporter of the legislation. "China's unfair trade practices are causing real pain in the U.S." Last week, Beijing announced it might raise tariffs on unspecified American products if Washington doesn't back down on the steel-import tariffs imposed in March 2002. And it quickly announced...
...G.O.P. Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia said the reversal proved "that the American people have a strong voice in deciding what is fair and appropriate." One problem: the American people--already equipped to exercise that voice with their remotes--hadn't seen The Reagans. Nor had its critics or defenders, since the controversial work--still being edited when it was yanked--did not yet exist. A few partisans saw leaked scripts; most based their attacks on quotes in the press...
...G.O.P. Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia said the reversal proved "that the American people have a strong voice in deciding what is fair and appropriate." One problem: the American people - already equipped to exercise that voice with their remotes - hadn't seen The Reagans. Nor had its critics or defenders, since the controversial work - still being edited when it was yanked - did not yet exist. A few partisans saw leaked scripts; most based their attacks on quotes in the press...