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...Karen Hughes didn't like what she was hearing. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied...
Jeffords' defection "isn't going to change what the President believes," insists Bush counselor Karen Hughes. But the package is being rewrapped. Worried that Democrats have succeeded in painting him as hard-right, Bush is going green with trips to Sequoia National Park last week and the Florida Everglades this week. Speeches are being salted with soothing "compassion-speak." Moderate Senate Republicans are being watched like Cuban athletes on tour. Bush has invited Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee to a private dinner and phoned Chafee's colleague Maine's Olympia Snowe to congratulate her on the child-credit increase...
...area around Mae Sot in Thailand's wild west is a tense mix of Thai soldiers, Burmese rebels and smugglers of jade, gemstones, heroin and amphetamines. A boxer calling himself Thai may have been born in a Burmese refugee camp and speak the language of the Karen guerrillas or the Mon tribesmen over the frontier. Crowds flock from Burma for the fights, some crossing legally at the checkpoint but most just wade across the parched Moei river. In this town of mixed allegiances and sliding identities, boxing alone provides a little certainty?without exception, every match is Thailand vs. Burma...
...President," interjected White House Counselor Karen Hughes, "We don't use that expression...
...With the first hundred days of the Bush administration completed, Card has established himself as a disciplined manager of the White House, forming a troika with senior adviser Karl Rove and counselor Karen Hughes to serve the president...