Word: karle
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...years that George W. Bush was governor of Texas I was editor of Texas Monthly, a position that allowed me to watch the stages of his political metamorphosis. I first met him when Karl Rove, who would later run Bush's campaign for president and is now a Bush adviser in the White House, called to say that Bush was going to run for governor and wanted to talk with me. He was still with the Texas Rangers baseball team then, and we met in his office in Dallas. It was filled, as his governor's office would be, with...
...funky little gathering--ZZ Top will play some tunes--put together by the Friends of W., Inc., a down-home group including Hyperion Energy, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Reliant Energy, AOL Time Warner, Texas Utilities and Motorola. Guests include campaign chairman Don Evans and the Bush Iron Triangle--Karl Rove, Karen Hughes and Joe Allbaugh. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel...
...Karl Marx theorized that capitalism was condemned to repeated depressions because of "cycles of overproduction." Marx may have got some of the details wrong: he thought the workers would be unable to buy goods because their wages would be continually pushed toward subsistence levels. Now it's more likely that consumers are using their well-above-subsistence wages to pay for noncommodities instead, such as travel, restaurant meals and personal trainers. But if Marx had hit the shopping malls last week and seen the heavy discounting--or looked on the Internet and seen the emergence of cut-rate sites like...
Bush is sensitive enough about the Restoration label that he is certain to bring in new faces wherever he can. Bush would like to have his three top Texas loyalists close by in the White House: political guru Karl Rove, press attache Karen Hughes and operations chief Joe Allbaugh--if he can get him to come. (Allbaugh, who isn't keen to move to D.C., joked to TIME recently that he was "looking for lottery numbers so I can tell the Governor to 'Go to hell.'") Bush's alter ego, Don Evans, a friend going back 25 years, will probably...
Sources: Prof. Karl Sigman of Columbia Univ., State of Florida, Los Angeles Times, N.Y.C. Board of Elections, New York Times, Los Angeles Times