Word: crawfords
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...time Bush left for a month's vacation on his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 4, that mood had changed. Where the President goes, the responsibilities of office follow, and so, each morning, Bush sat in the ranch office and received the CIA's Presidential Daily Brief. The brief--or PDB, in Langley-speak--is the CIA's chance to mainline its priorities into the President's thinking. Each day, the PDB is winnowed to a few pages; when the President is in Washington, one of two "briefers"--agency up-and-comers who flesh out the written text--gets...
DIED. KEVYN AUCOIN, 40, celebrity makeup artist and advocate for gay youth, who sought to enhance the individuality of clients like Cher, Cindy Crawford, Courtney Love and Janet Jackson; of complications from a pituitary brain tumor; in Westchester County, N.Y. Through his makeup, he said, he aimed to boost clients' self-esteem...
...from Washington to, of all places, the normally unwakable Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Crown Prince Abdullah gave Cheney "an earload full" at a private dinner in Houston on Wednesday--urging the Veep to abandon the Administration's pro-Israel tilt. And when Abdullah met with the President in Crawford, Texas, on Thursday, there were even signs that the old Bush charm had lost its purchase. Accounts of the 5-hr. meeting vary dramatically. According to two sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts--a photo album and two videocassettes--each containing powerful images of the destruction of Palestinian homes...
...decide to attack Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Last week a "person close to the Crown Prince" told the New York Times there was talk within the Saudi royal family of using the "oil weapon" against the U.S. and of asking Americans to leave their Saudi bases. After the Crawford meeting, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said that "we will not use oil as a weapon," while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told TIME that the future of U.S. bases was not even discussed. Still, the question is now on the table: Could the U.S. dispense with Saudi oil and military...
...President Bush gave Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah a pickup-truck tour of his Texas ranch. At the end of the visit, Bush avowed that the two leaders had forged a "strong, personal bond." But the Crown Prince and the President were unable to agree to a joint statement at Crawford, Texas, last week, which gave the long and complex U.S.-Saudi relationship another twist...