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...future, he positioned himself in the narrow political space that allowed him to claim he had not stood in the way of promising medical investigations. At the same time, he could insist that he had kept his promises to the Republican right, which abandoned his father after the elder Bush broke his no-new-taxes pledge. To placate scientists who argue that Bush did not go far enough, he promised "aggressive federal funding of research on umbilical-cord, placenta, adult and animal stem cells, which do not involve the same moral dilemma." The government is already spending $250 million...
When Joe was sweeping the field in Massachusetts in 1986, his elder sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, then 35, was racing around blue-collar neighborhoods outside Baltimore, her slip showing and her hair a mess. She had moved to Maryland two years before to be near her husband's family. Ignoring the Kennedy precept that home is where the opportunity is, she had bought a house just outside a reliably Democratic district. So when she decided to run for Congress, she found herself up against a nearly unbeatable Republican Congresswoman. Kathleen seemed unsure how--or whether--to capitalize on her biggest...
...fashion face-saving exit that kept the relationship on track. Media speculation had it that Papa Bush and some of his advisers had weighed in gently at the height of the crisis, and if this is so it is to be welcomed - after all, the advice of Bush the Elder helps counter the hawkish instincts of Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld...
Howard Boggess, 64, a Crow historian, attended one of these parlays. Boggess, who is legally blind but can read and write with high-tech assistance, describes hearing a clash of many tongues. An Arapahoe elder offered a short prayer and invoked the valley's "sacredness." The Anschutz executives, as Boggess recalls, invoked their legal rights and complained about media coverage. The Indians too were worried about coverage because they feared revealing too much about their cherished valley. But when their letters to Denver and Washington went unanswered, they went public...
...that's what a White House loves to hear. Every White House has done its share of jawboning the Fed to lower rates, economic growth being very good politics. And few Fed chairman listen, as the elder Bush so painfully learned in 1991 when Greenspan's caution in lowering ushered in the recession that ushered Bush out. So Bush the younger, who probably still hears about that around the barbecue pit in Kennebunkport, appears to be insuring himself as best he can against a similar fate...