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...people to become guest workers, which tends to appeal to Hispanic voters. G.O.P. House members who fear that Bush's guest-worker plan could tear the party apart say Administration officials have recently assured them that the White House would support a separate border-security bill first rather than insist on a linked package. Doing so could make it harder for Bush to later get the guest-worker program, which he once thought would give substance to his rhetoric of compassion. That is one of the many ways that Bush, who has always talked about the presidency as a vehicle...
...museum show of their work in that Dutch city last year. Herzog, the more talkative of the pair, is quick to explain that the fragrance was not an attempt to go head to head with J. Lo. They just wanted to make a theoretical point. "We very strongly insist on architecture's potential to reach all the senses," he says, "not just the visual. At a time of digital media and cyberspace, architecture has this old-fashioned potential. You can touch it, you can feel it, you can see it, you can smell...
...wakened them from their notion of infallibility," says a Bush adviser. Those who have been arguing for what would count in this White House as radical change--fresh faces, shiny plans, a wider exchange of ideas--felt that at last they had some leverage because Bush could no longer insist that everything was working just fine...
...This is a prescription for brand-name drug manufacturers to earn greater profits at the expense of low-income consumers," charges Democratic senator Jay Rockefeller. But aides for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Finance Committee chairman Charles Grassley insist the generic drug companies are exaggerating the pain they'll feel from the expanded discount. They add that the deficit reduction bill, which the full Senate will consider this week, has other sweeteners for the generics companies...
...lanterns cover the overhead light to create a rich warm glow. “It’s a bit cheeky,” says Shemtov. “We used some kind of tacky pieces, like a lumberjack lamp.” Most of this, McClure and Pham insist, is the work of Tines and Shemtov, who have masterminded the suite’s decoration. Pham and Shemtov share the one double, which they styled for “the feel of an old men’s club,” Shemtov says. The walls are covered...