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GEORGE W. BUSH wants to put Congress on a diet. Next week he will release details from his budget, with more specifics about his plan to eliminate close to 6,000 earmarks--those pet projects that lawmakers fund by going around the budget process. He should have an ally in JOHN MCCAIN, who has been trying unsuccessfully for years to eliminate these extra items that balloon government spending. Why are earmarks so hard to get rid of? Because one person's wasteful pork is another person's vital program. Bush is already being attacked for his plans to eliminate earmarks...
AILING. SUZANNE SOMERS, 54, ebullient actress, fitness guru and diet-book author; with breast cancer. Against her doctors' advice, Somers is forgoing traditional chemotherapy, pursuing instead an untested homeopathic treatment...
...bottle of Diet Coke that sent a University worker to the hospital last month has tested positive for a foreign substance...
...Remember, those surplus projections come with a diet too. The CBO's rosy forecasts lowballed economic growth and productivity enough to put them on pretty firm ground. What trigger proponents are saying is that the third component of the projections - growth in discretionary spending - was hopelessly optimistic, and they can't be trusted to stick...
...Which may in fact be a realistic appraisal. But should Congress be giving up on its diet before it even starts...