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While it has been Bush's preference to float above other fights on Capitol Hill, leaving him in a position to take credit for whatever emerges, both Democrats and Republicans say this is one fight that promises to be so big and complicated that he will have to engage. His surprise announcement created a surge of momentum behind his proposal, but it could quickly disintegrate. "Only the President has the power to 'crack heads,'" the centrist Democratic Leadership Council noted in its daily bulletin. "If he doesn't do so, then reorganization won't accomplish much, especially in the crucial...
...don’t think there’s any litmus test or that he would float some balloons and try to see if people are all on the same page,” he says...
...Reichert couldn't find him. For the deeply religious detective, it was like a long journey through hell. Says Reichert: "I would come home after finding a 15-year-old girl, melting flesh off her face, body falling apart, the stench of rotting flesh--these are the memories that float...
After eight months during which he seemed to float happily beyond the reach of his critics, George W. Bush found himself in danger of sinking last week. As clues and warnings about the Sept. 11 plot came to light and the need to assign blame grew stronger, fingers began pointing toward the White House. Bush was in an unaccustomed position--on the defensive against the Democrats, who seemed more energized than they had been in a year. But he responded with a counterattack that turned out to be a dazzling example of Bush Family Combat...
Clones' visual effects can be buoyant (Anakin makes a pear float, in a literal fruit loop) or imposing (the final vista of an orange sky). And they give a vertiginous kick to the fight scenes. A mile-high car chase has cool dips and speed bumps. An arena battle begins as a Gladiator knock-off and then escalates, with lumbering monsters that recall the peerless work of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. A light-saber duel in the dark has loads of drama and glamour...