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Bush aides were calling it a dream first week--even before Thursday, when Bush's big across-the-board tax cut got a huge boost from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. The Fed chief, who was the first village elder Bush went to see on his initial trip to Washington as President-elect, put forward last week the mind-bending idea that it was actually possible to pay off the national debt too fast. He told Congress that some sort of tax cut might do "noticeable good" if the economy keeps heading south...
...into a van," according to the editor of the local paper. But while living in Houston in the 1970s, he became active in the Republican Party. Why? Paige once told the Dallas Morning News that in Mississippi, "the guys that were lynching us were Democrats." He campaigned for the elder George Bush when he ran in the 1980 Republican presidential primaries, and Paige describes the Bush family as the "cream of the earth...
That's because Tubridy, currently Harvard's second-leading scorer and rebounder, watched her older sister Catherine star for the Lions for the past four years. Throughout her time at Christ the King High School in New York, Tricia did not miss a single one of her elder sister's home games...
Catherine has since graduated, and that's good news for Harvard. The elder Tubridy was a Crimson-killer last season. She posted a double-double in the first meeting between the two teams and later that year, she hit two clutch three-pointers that keyed the Lions' 62-58 upset win that destroyed Harvard's Ivy title hopes...
...beliefs as a family: what they believe may have changed since the Wall Street Republicanism of Senator Prescott Bush, but everybody seems to have changed in step. And, like all other dynasties, they could have been choked off a number of times--most notably in 1980, when George the Elder had been whomped by Ronald Reagan and was faced with returning to Texas, having just about run out of offices to which he could be appointed...