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...Clinton isn't going to make it easy for Bush. But this is not about Clinton, it's about Bush--and there's less downside than meets the eye. Bush has already fed the right wing with the antigay, antiabortion, anti-affirmative action John Ashcroft and with Gale Norton, who would open the South Lawn to drilling if she could. The chattering class on the right might howl for a while, but it's not going to abandon Bush unless he abandons tax cuts. And Ford isn't an apt comparison. Some thought, without evidence, that Ford...
...Stone (Viking; 244 pages; $23.95), translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans. In the early '70s, in a quiet suburb of Haarlem, Ellen's psychotic mother killed three of her five children, her husband and herself. Believing she was saving her loved ones from evil, Margreet van Bemmel fed them tranquilizers and put bags over their heads. Ellen and a young brother escaped by hiding in the cellar...
...George W. Bush's nominee to head his Treasury Department - and square his $1.6 trillion tax cut with Congress and the Fed chairman - joked during his short, painless, not-controversial-enough-for-live-coverage hearings Wednesday that he was "thinking about whether I can still get away with being a maverick for a few more days... I think I will...
...Neill is against tax cuts, or tax cuts now - "If we are going to do it anyway, then the sooner the better," he added - but he made quite clear to the committee that he thinks smoothing out the business cycle and saving the economy from recession is the Fed's job, and that the White House and Congress should stick to balancing the budget...
...Neill and the Fed chairman worked for Ford together; their continuing friendship was the main reason why he was picked, and will be the main reason he'll likely be confirmed before the sun sets on Inauguration Day. The convivial relations between Greenspan and the Clinton team have been well documented; Greenspan and at least one member of the Bush team will be even closer...