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...JAMES TRAFICANT Curiously coiffed Ohio Democrat indicted over bribery, taxes. Note: no plaid jumpsuits...
...Dueling congressional news conferences: Republican Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici doffed his cap to Bush - "You have moved us in the direction of giving back taxes to the American people, rather than giving them the last cut of the deck" - and Democrat Robert Byrd pretending to call his mother. "Yes, Mother, I voted for the tax cuts," sang Byrd. "But now, on Medicare, no. We're putting that off for another day, Mother. Forget it." (Byrd also said Social Security, education and just about everything else gets shorted by Bush...
...sake of my mental health than anything else. I figured the cure for my fiendish malaise would be easy to find at a company still worth billions in the wake of the tech crash, a company that recently spawned its own U.S. Senator (Maria Cantwell, the famous 50th Democrat and a former Real Jukebox product manager). All I'd have to do was look hard enough among the foosball tables and Odwalla juice fridges of this former cannery building. The place looked like someone had taken a dotcom start-up and stretched the ceiling five times...
...already tense because of the spy-plane episode and the just announced sale, over China's fierce protests, of a sprawling weapons package to Taiwan--caused a furor and renewed doubts about whether he has the touch to handle tricky international issues. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, a leading Democrat, rushed to the Senate floor to complain that with his unscripted remarks, Bush "made a major policy change with absolutely no consultation with members of Congress or with our allies in the region." Others suspected that Bush confused plain speaking with sharp thinking: "Words matter, nuance matters," said Delaware's Joseph...
...about whether Aristide is still the populist hero the U.S. saved seven years ago or a Creole caudillo who may send another tsunami of Haitian boat people onto beaches run by Bush's brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush. "Americans," says Aristide, 47, "ought to know that I am the democrat they remember...