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...blame Gore's loss not on the Florida recount or the Supreme Court but on Gore himself--his lame performance, inept campaign and stubborn mishandling of Bill Clinton. Indeed, party leaders on both coasts say Gore must patch his rocky relations with Clinton. But those close to Gore still defend his distance from the scandal-plagued President, and say they hope these next four years further separate the two in the public mind. One source close to Clinton says the former President would support Gore, "but that presupposes Gore asks--and I don't think he'll bring himself around...
...from Christian conservatives worried about government meddling in church affairs, DiIulio lashed out, labeling them "predominantly white, exurban, evangelical and national parachurch leaders." And when word leaked that DiIulio's No. 2, Don Eberly, and Bush adviser Karl Rove were entertaining an inappropriate request from the Salvation Army--to defend the charity's right to discriminate against gays in exchange for its support for Bush's bill--DiIulio was furious. After repeated false starts, a scaled-back version of the faith-based bill passed the House last month. But its prospects in the Democratic-controlled Senate are dim at best...
...After five years, Price, a native of North Carolina, has become a Venetian at heart. "It's such a small area for so many tourists," he says, shaking his head. "We have to defend ourselves." He has found himself a defender of the gondola as well. "My goal is to help preserve the tradition, and this is the place to do it," he says. "I could go back and make gondolas in the U.S., but it's not as interesting." Besides, who in America knows a real gondola from a plywood imitation? "In Las Vegas you can see some very...
...Anwar thinks it should. At a crowded refugee camp in a mosque not far from Bukit Indah, the 30-year-old farmer lifts his shirt to reveal thick, track-like scars, the remnants of wounds he says he received last summer when soldiers, assigned to defend ExxonMobil employees and property, whipped him nightly for a month with ropes of barbed wire. He was also burned with cigarettes and beaten unconscious with a wooden board. They did not kill him, but he wishes they had. Then he would not have had to watch the soldiers shoot his brother in the head...
...Bush pegged China as a strategic competitor. Earlier this year, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested it was time for the military to orient its strategic thinking toward the objective of containing Chinese regional ambitions in Asia. Bush also broke a taboo by vowing to "do whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan against an attack from the mainland - although that may have been a rhetorical slip, given his hurried efforts immediately afterwards to reassure Beijing and worried U.S. allies that there had been no departure from Washington's longstanding "One China" policy...