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...George W. Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove is supposed to keep the President in a healthy political glow. But on one key issue recently, Rove stood by while Bush turned as gray as a hazy day in Houston. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty, suspended new arsenic standards for drinking water--and began to look suspiciously like the eco-villain Al Gore warned us about. Moderate Republicans were getting jittery. So last week Rove and other aides pulled out the green paints and brushes and set to work...
...Bush has been sitting down all week with every imaginable major news outlet on an exclusive-interview blitz, hoping to up his presidential profile as his "First 100 Days" draws to a close Sunday. (Karl Rove thinks it should be 180 days, an extension which would incidentally help Bush notch a few more legislative achievements, but nobody...
...will always be remembered for stripping Karl Malone of the ball in the closing moments of Game Six of the 1998 NBA Finals, and then promptly schooling Byron Russell from the free throw line to hit the championship clincher...
...then chief Bush strategist Karl Rove piped up in this week's TIME magazine: The price of drilling, in terms of political capital, looked prohibitively high. And so it seemed as if the environmentalists - after watching with what must have been a perverse glee as Bush spent much of his first 90-odd days galvanizing their ranks with eco-unfriendly announcements on everything from carbon dioxide emissions to arsenic levels in drinking water...
...commend Karl Taro Greenfeld for his candid article about the similarities between his chronic use of speed and the growing problem of methamphetamine addiction in Asia [WORLD, April 2]. Had this piece been written by someone without firsthand knowledge of the dangers of drugs, it would have failed to capture the hopelessness, desperation and irony in the lives of drug users. Greenfeld's article was an example both of beautiful writing and courage. PARINA SOMNHOT Ashburn...