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Bush has united his party by employing a strategy that Grover Norquist, a White House ally and the president of Americans for Tax Reform, describes as "delivering on first-tier issues." For the fiercely antitax crowd, Bush supplied his $1.1 trillion tax cut in 2001. For those in the party who obsess over judicial nominations, this Bush has not disappointed as his father did. Bush picks nominees considered ideologically sound and understands the political value of fighting for those, like Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen, labeled ultraconservative by Democrats. By sticking with his core supporters on the issues they care...
Reports of suicides have been grossly overstated. But it was a day that shredded fortunes. The preceding week had already seen such huge waves of panic selling that Police Commissioner Grover Whalen stationed an extra 500 cops on the increasingly rowdy streets of New York City's financial district. On Oct. 29, the panic that had possessed speculators and individuals was joined at the opening bell by traders for giant institutions. Blue chips like Standard Oil and Westinghouse gapped lower on massive trading volume. On a whim, a messenger bid for 100 shares of White Sewing Machine...
...course, what is true in theory may turn out to be impossible in practice. As one researcher, Lov Grover of Lucent, put it, "We're writing the software for a device that does not yet exist...
...Separately, an anti-tax organization called the Tax Relief Coalition has recruited 20 business organizations for a "working group" on the issue. Its first meeting is set for this week. If that is not enough to entice businesses to get on board, maybe another kind of pressure will. Activist Grover Norquist, who works closely with the White House, warns the business world to think long term. "You want to be in on next year's package?" Norquist asks. "Then salute this year's." --By Karen Tumulty
...Westport Country Playhouse, where his wife Joanne Woodward is artistic director) in Our Town, Thornton Wilder's oft produced slice of Americana, which is given some 350 stagings around the country each year. As the Stage Manager--the fourth-wall-bursting narrator who introduces us to the town of Grover's Corners and its bashful young lovers, George Gibbs and Emily Webb--Newman is at the front of the stage for much of the show but in the shadows for most of the drama. He has no showy emotional moments, his thin voice struggles to fill the house, and there...