Word: hubbub
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...public victory whoop (I came in 40th! I came in 40th!) knowing that it would not be appropriate in the dead-serious atmosphere surrounding the results board. I save my reactions for later, quietly absorbing my place (and the places of my teammates) before moving off out of the hubbub. Later in the day I come back to the same board when nobody is around. The banners are still up and there is the echo of something dramatic still hanging in the air. I sit and listen to the wind in the lodgepole pines and have my own quiet, private...
...language - not the President's strong suit, by his own admission. And that much was evident Wednesday as China policy watchers both in Washington and Beijing tried to parse the implications of Bush's latest comments about defending Taiwan, as the President himself did a little damage control. The hubbub began after Bush told ABC News Wednesday that Beijing needs to understand that the U.S. would "do whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan. That was a dramatic break with Washington's traditional ambiguity on the question, designed in part to avoid emboldening Taiwanese leaders to declare independence. In a subsequent...
Meanwhile, for all the hubbub surrounding him entering the day, Steitz got hammered...
...jeopardy. In response, several Democratic lawmakers have begun to talk about a tax increase. But few of their colleagues want to go that route. (Read their lips: No new taxes.) So while they look for another way out of the mess, Republicans are arguing that the hubbub is merely a dirt devil whipped up by Bush's enemies in Washington. They point out that Texas will have nearly $1 billion in emergency funds on which to draw. And a spokesman in Bush's White House insists that "Texas is in a strong fiscal position...
...need much of a push from Bush. What keeps the story going is the accumulated weight of embarrassments, the fact that they fit so many preconceptions about the Clintons and the diversion they offer the cable-news networks. It might not have bothered people so much had the hubbub stopped when a few broken glasses on Air Force One were exaggerated into an airborne bacchanal. Or when Hillary accepted an over-the-top book advance. Or when, in the well-established presidential tradition of hauling home favors from the party, the Clintons lifted a few that hadn't been intended...