Word: crawfords
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...continue to air differences in public. For DeLay, a former exterminator from Houston, Bush is a Republican born of privilege and more representative of his party's country-club wing, despite his Midland, Texas, roots and frequent trips to his Crawford ranch. Explaining himself, DeLay simply says, "I'm just a bug man." --By John F. Dickerson and Michael Weisskopf
...Staff writer James A. Crawford can be reached at crawfor@fas.harvard.edu...
...caught Sargent completely by surprise,” says Mary Crawford Volk, a scholar at the Museum Studies Program of Harvard Extension School who is currently writing a book on Sargent...
...first time since 1998. Bush was hearing the same argument from old colleagues of his father's, like Brent Scowcroft, Rice's predecessor and mentor, and from British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was due to visit Camp David at the end of the month. On Aug. 26, in Crawford, Texas, Bush held a meeting of the National Security Council over a secure videoconference system. Powell argued that taking the Iraq issue to the U.N. would maintain international support and close off no options. Reluctantly, Cheney and Rumsfeld agreed. Bush would make the case at the U.N. in September, challenging...
When you poke under Europe's high-minded objections, you discover a lot of hostility toward Bush personally, whom a U.S. diplomat ruefully calls the "toxic Texan." His rhetoric plays better in Crawford than in Calais. Across the Atlantic, his style grates: Europeans are offended by his swagger, tough talk and invocations of God and evil. "People in Germany feel threatened by such wording," says Ludger Volmer, foreign affairs spokesman for the Green Party, and they dislike identifying an enemy with evil, oneself with good. "Politicians here," says Gerald Duchaussoy, 27, a Paris office worker, "don't speak with...