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...Bush and Hughes insist that nothing will change. She will continue her role, just from a different area code. But the White House won't be the same without her. Hughes is a security blanket for a man who is addicted to his comfortable patterns. Bush is simply more relaxed when Hughes is within earshot. When she's not there, he wants to know what she thinks. Dick Cheney is a more seasoned Washington hand and Karl Rove knows the raw politics of the country, but no one knows Bush's body language better than Hughes, who has been clipped...
...process that is oddly named the "new source review." The current rules stick the older plants with tough emissions guidelines if they modernize, creating a perverse incentive to leave dirty plants unchanged. Bush officials say that the new regulations are only a couple of months away, and they insist that the rules will be considerably more enviro-friendly than activists fear. If the White House doesn't make good on that promise, environmentalists will pounce on the rules the same way they blasted back Bush's attempt to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The fight never ends...
...White House officials insist that the apparent oscillation in the President's Middle East policy is one of bad phrasemaking and worse luck. Ever since Powell returned from his nine-day mission to the region, Bush has been unable, as an adviser puts it, "to get back to the speech," the elegant Rose Garden statement he made on April 4. In that address Bush for the first time lined up all the carrots and sticks to wheedle and whack both Israelis and Palestinians to the bargaining table. The idea was simple, maybe too simple: if Bush demanded that Israeli Prime...
...Background checks or not, angry and disturbed young men will always find a way to play out their fury and exact revenge. And if there are guns around, young men will find them and use them. Some would argue that eliminating that temptation means eliminating guns. Others insist that responsible gun ownership is the cure for irresponsible behavior. The bottom line is that after years of passionate debate and argument, no country in the world has found a system that completely keeps guns away from would-be killers...
...Still, a mistake is a mistake, and some analysts insist that while such write-downs are paper losses, it would be a mistake to ignore them completely - particularly if the company's stock hasn't already taken the appropriate hit. And even if it has, a company that runs around overpaying for assets that don't perform - even if it's only overpaying because investors were fooled too - is one to keep a jaundiced...