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—Staff writer Douglas G. Mulliken can be reached at mulliken@fas.harvard.edu.
Rove, who devised Bush's "big idea" agenda, is steering the President toward Medicare and health-care reform for his State of the Union speech Jan. 28. Medicare is a vexing issue that has resisted all attempts to fix it. Expect the President to be swinging from the heels. --Reported...
Democrats smell a trap. A campaign against Pickering would consume the resources of liberal lobbying groups and the political capital of Democrats in the Senate. That might give Bush an easier time getting confirmation for other nominees--equally conservative but younger judges, who would probably be on the bench much...
DIED. C. DOUGLAS DILLON, 93, well-connected Wall Street financier, diplomat and lifelong Republican who served as Treasury Secretary under two Democratic Presidents (Kennedy and Johnson) and ambassador to France under a Republican (Eisenhower); in New York City. Dillon was an Under Secretary of State when he was tapped to...
It had seemed a straightforward operation. Immigration officials and police, unarmed as usual in Britain, broke into an apartment in a run-down north Manchester suburb last Tuesday, seeking a 23-year-old Algerian who had gone missing after his bid for asylum was rejected. He was to be detained...