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...Oval Room, upstairs at the White House, and invited specialists from across the political spectrum. Sure, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Rice were there, along with a host of lesser Bushies. But none of them did the talking. Instead, five outsiders briefed the President, among them Michael McFaul, a Democrat and a Russia expert and Rice colleague from Stanford; Tom Graham, a Republican think-tanker; and Felix Rohatyn, the New York investment banker who was Clinton's ambassador to France. The surprising cast included two Brits--Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, and the left-leaning Oxford scholar Timothy...
...Democrat Carl Levin plans to pick apart W.'s missile-defense scheme from his new perch atop the Armed Services Committee, and to probe oil-company price gouging as head of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Patrick Leahy will slow down the schedule for considering judicial nominees to give Democrats more time to stockpile ammunition against conservative ones. Next week Daschle plans to bring up a patient's bill of rights measure that Kennedy has sponsored with Senators John Edwards and John McCain. Bush has threatened to veto it. Says Joe Biden, who heads the Foreign Relations Committee: "Bush...
Though Banales, a Democrat, has been accused of issuing his order to win popularity at the polls next year--his is an elected judgeship--his cheering section includes probation officers who already see a sobering effect on new probationers. "It's definitely a deterrent now," says Iris Davila, probation supervisor in the Nueces County Community Supervision and Correction Department. "Other offenders are saying to us, 'We'll do whatever it takes not to have signs...
...will quit during the next term. A longtime adviser suggests the Prime Minister will indeed leave in four or five years, while he's still young enough to do something else - an outcome deeply desired by his heir apparent Gordon Brown, the brooding Chancellor of the Exchequer. A Liberal Democrat official is sure Blair will go too, while the going is good: "He has set up an unbridgeable gap between expectations and reality and filled it with half-truths. He'll leave because he can't sustain...
...Democrats have been salivating over U.S. District Court Judge Terrence W. Boyle, 55, a prot?g? of North Carolina conservative Sen. Jesse Helms, whom Bush has tapped for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Boyle, however, may be saved by North Carolina's other senator, Democrat John Edwards. Edwards opposes Boyle, but he's holding off blocking the nomination if he can get the White House to nominate another North Carolinian to the 4th Circuit. Edwards' favorite is state Appeals Court Judge James A. Wynn, an African-American whom Helms has blocked in the past...