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...control of the chamber. The Speaker added that the House G.O.P. would offer up its own emergency round of tax cuts--with or without White House backing. "Fine," Bush said, feigning enthusiasm. Privately, the President is worried that a Hastert plan, if passed, could dunk the budget in red ink by 2004, when he is up for re-election, if not sooner. But Bush decided not to object to Hastert's plan in public...
...with Arafat. He has Sharon's blessing. But if the near war stops, the world will be waiting to see how Sharon builds a near peace. Arafat will demand all kinds of "confidence-building measures" like land transfers, let alone the big concessions on Jerusalem and refugees needed to ink a major deal. In Sharon's mind--and doubtless in that of many others who remember the War of Independence--such issues touch on the very nature of the state for whose birth they fought more than 50 years ago. These days, for Ariel Sharon, Israel's past...
...includes a cut in the capital gains tax, hoping to juice up the economy in the short term and grow their way out of the surplus shortfall. Bush is intrigued, but not sure he wants to buy into more tax cuts that might plunge the government into more red ink later. The White House and Congress are also mulling whether to slow down the outlay rates for next year - that's the money the government actually spends for budgeted items - in order to have more for the non-Social Security surplus...
...priceless archives. For like the rings of long-lived trees and the accreted layers of massive corals, ice encodes surprisingly precise records of swings in temperature and precipitation over the centuries. Once that ice starts to melt, however, those records might as well have been written in water-smeared ink...
Printed on off-white paper with black ink and a very subtle gray tone for shading Sturm has a simple comix style that perfectly complements the kind of Americana he writes about. He uses old photographs for reference, particularly when drawing the players in action, but distills the details down to the fuzziness of memory. It feels like looking at an old snapshot album that actually tells a story...