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...filler,” he says.FUTURE UNCERTAINIn early 2002, Rees published a GYWO strip that, like many others, featured two nameless office workers talking on the telephone—in this instance, about Bush’s infamous reading of “My Pet Goat” to Florida school-children during Sept. 11 and about reports that terrorists were targeting New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.This strip exemplifies Rees’ philosophy of political comedy: be over-the-top, but never flinch from the fear we all feel. The dialogue goes like this...
...move is also surprising since Lott has ascended to the Senate post in the same week that Republicans appointed Mel Martinez, a Senator from Florida, to head the National Republican Committee. Martinez, who is Cuban-American, is expected to help Republicans woo Latin voters. Republicans, however, say they're not worried about Lott's past remarks. ""People understand he has been deeply apologetic," said Maine's Olympia Snowe, a close friend of Lott's. Lott's colleagues have been willing to forgive him for his comments. Now, if he helps them win back the Senate, maybe they'll even forget...
Price movements can also vary from region to region. Be careful if you're leaving the city for a smaller home in Florida, Arizona or Nevada. Properties in those areas--condominiums especially--have been ground zero for real estate speculation over the past five years. Prices there may drop faster than the national average next year, says Zoltan Pozsar, an economist at Moody's Economy.com...
Filling the exceedingly sensitive post of House Intelligence Committee chairman will be a good test of how Pelosi works. Her fellow Californian Jane Harman, its ranking member, wants the job, but Pelosi doesn't particularly like Harman, so speculation is that Pelosi could go to the next in line, Florida's Alcee Hastings. That would please the black caucus, but there's no small political problem in the fact that in 1989 Hastings was impeached by the (Democratic) House and removed by the (Democratic) Senate from his federal judgeship for conspiring to take a $150,000 bribe (although...
...talking to the President directly for months. The two men have a long history. It was Bush who installed himself in Washington in 1986 to keep an eye on his father's presidential campaign, then being run by Baker. And it was Baker who led the legal fight in Florida that handed W. his presidency in 2001. But if Baker is now laying the groundwork for another bailout of the man he once referred to as Junior, he can also thank Bush for bringing him back to center stage at a time of genuine national crisis. Baker has held three...