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...that they've got the sunny, compassionate face of George W. Bush watching over them, congressional Republicans apparently figure it's safe to channel the pudgy soul of Newt Gingrich. And so on Monday House Speaker Dennis Hastert and GOP whipmeister Tom DeLay yanked a late-night budget deal out from under their own negotiators and waded into one last budget showdown with Bill Clinton. And this time, they're definitely gonna take him. Really...
...That's what Gore calls it too. Except that the reason DeLay and Hastert killed the deal (a repetitive-stress-syndrome OSHA regulation measure) was definitely on behalf of business - and is one of the things that tend to make the GOP look mean-spirited once Clinton gets to spinning...
...standard age at 11 was a small study in the 1960s of white girls raised in English orphanages. But Dr. John Dallas, a pediatric endocrinologist with the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, points out that the British girls may have been poorly nourished--a factor known to delay puberty. African- American girls were studied even less rigorously. "For all we know," says Dallas, "African-American girls could have been earlier developers for a long time...
...Audrey lets you check all your news and mail offline by scheduling as many as five automated downloads a day. I loved rolling out of bed in the morning, reading the latest news and peeking ahead at a detailed, four-day weather forecast almost instantaneously--without the hum, whir, delay and bother of booting up my home...
...puzzle. Bush sings a sweet song. He's the uniter-not-a-divider. But his entire campaign is designed to mask a basic question: Bush may know who he is, but does anyone else in his party? While Bush runs as "a different kind of Republican," majority whip Tom DeLay has not changed; much of the rest of the leadership has not changed; the party platform has barely changed. He is treated as the messiah by conservatives left in the wilderness since Newt Gingrich was exiled, who have been willing all year long to mute their horror at that inclusive...