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...just fuzzy math and wishful thinking. Bush avoided such hot buttons as his anti-abortion rights position and his wanting to drill for oil in Alaska's protected wilderness. He flicked at what he calls the "death tax," but Democrats will remind voters that the move would funnel billions to the superrich. Bush's education plans sounded good from the rostrum, but it'll be all but impossible to sell Congress on vouchers for religious schools. Missile defense? It might be an easier sell if the Pentagon could get the thing to work...
...Because next week, Bush's stay of execution - the order to western states to funnel their surplus electricity to California lightbulbs - runs out, and you can bet the folks in Oregon, Washington and Idaho won't be doing it voluntarily. The trick for Davis, in his haste to cut stopgap deals, will be to avoid paying prices that are an expensive embarrassment five years down the road...
...reforms that would require states to test students, promote character and abstinence programs, and give parents of kids in failing public schools vouchers that they can use to help pay tuition at private and parochial schools. Next week Bush will introduce legislation on another signature issue, a proposal to funnel federal funds to community- and faith-based charities that do everything from feed the homeless to treat the addicted. Then, just as they recess for most of February, members of Congress will receive a copy of Bush's 10-year, $1.6 trillion tax-cut proposal to tuck into their travel...
...Cologne-based Splendid Media is co-producing the movie Traffic, which Zeta-Jones, Douglas and Quaid are filming. Splendid is also putting up $65 million of the $90 million needed for the Scorsese-DiCaprio movie The Gangs of New York. And if all goes according to plan, it will funnel more than $100 million into a series of co-productions with Zeta-Jones' production firm, Milkwood Films, over the next two years...
Judging by his story on Starbucks' "new" vacuum coffee pot [TREND ALERT, Oct. 23], you need to send Joshua Quittner to basic-science class. The vacuum coffee pots (which can actually be purchased for a few dollars at secondhand stores) push the water to the top funnel because of pressure created by boiling water in the bottom vessel, not by a vacuum in the upper chamber. When the bottom vessel is allowed to cool, a vacuum forms and sucks the coffee back down. The only thing new about this technology is Starbucks' $169 price tag. BILL CONNELL Florence...