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...DIED. GROVER MITCHELL, 73, leader of the Count Basie Orchestra; of cancer; in New York City. Mitchell, who played trombone for Basie for a dozen years, became the band's leader in 1995, the third person to take over the group following Basie's death in 1984. Under Mitchell's direction, the band won two Grammys and found new fans...
...reason may be that some of the GOP?s savviest inside players angled hard to stave off the suspension. Conservatives like Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, sent out news releases stating that his group ?Condemns the Attacks on MCI.? Norquist, the leader of a group of rightward thinking activists who meet regularly (sometimes with White House staffers), wrote to at least one senator who was bearing down on MCI and contacted the General Services Administration, the agency that administers federal phone contracts, to plug for the company. Norquist, who blames labor unions and other telecom industry competitors...
...fury of many Democrats at what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, 'Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...
...fury of many Democrats at what they perceive to be a radical Republican Administration. Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, "I've been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more." I asked her why. She said, "Grover Norquist," referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President's tax cuts. "He said, ?Bipartisanship is date rape.' Well, I don't like being raped...
...Bush wins from his base for seeding the lower courts with judges it considers ideologically correct, the Supreme Court pick is seen in a different league. "It doesn't do any good to pick good lower-court guys and throw the Supreme Court" to a moderate, says conservative activist Grover Norquist. The Supreme Court is the Holy Grail for the right and not to be bargained or traded away. The firmness of conservatives on the high court casts some doubt on one option that White House strategists are considering: elevating Scalia to Chief Justice if Rehnquist leaves, thereby earning enough...