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...down the filibuster his G.O.P. colleagues would launch to kill it. Bagging Cochran "shook the earth" for G.O.P. Senators, says Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who has written his own campaign-finance legislation. "We're going to have to deal with campaign-finance reform this year whether the President-elect likes...
...really appreciated your Person of the Year. You made an excellent choice. I am happy for President-elect Bush. CECILIA JENKINS Chicago...
...Since he was first mentioned as a candidate for President-elect Bush's Cabinet, Ashcroft has inspired a groundswell of left-wing hand-wringing not seen since Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearing a decade ago. The former Missouri senator, whose seat was won in November by the late Mel Carnahan and is now occupied by Carnahan's widow, has a long and well-known history of conservative boosterism - but until recently, his ideology never made national headlines...
...President-elect Bush would be forgiven for taking issue with that interpretation. The incoming administration is more likely to see maintaining the peace process as primarily the responsibility of the Israelis and Palestinians themselves...
...failed to tempt either Arafat or Barak to commit to their roles because its basic propositions contained the seeds of domestic political doom for both men. And that appears to be the reality President Clinton has failed to grasp in his attempt to pass the peacemaker baton to President-elect Bush. Right now, both sides can commit to an open-ended process that helps them manage their conflict - to a process, in other words, without an endpoint...