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Conrad Burns, G.O.P. Senator from Montana, epitomizes rough-edged, Western independence. A tobacco-chewing conservative, he picks his teeth with a pocket knife and skewers liberal dogma with equal relish. He sees nothing wrong with snowmobiles in national forests, thinks drug companies aren't getting a fair shake and leads Congress in donations from Big Tobacco...
...percent of them think they are in that top 1 percent, and an additional 20 percent expect to be one day. It turns out to be Bush who makes a fairness case: Why shouldn't everyone who pays taxes get a tax cut? And in a twist of the knife, he has even made it a kind of character test, a symbol of courage and constancy. "I haven't changed my position on this issue," Bush said last week in Missouri. "I haven't fine-tuned my message. I have said the same thing for 15 months since I laid...
...never ran his own kiln. Like Rikyu before him, Koetsu worked with a family of potters whose name came to stand for a whole class of rough, low-fired pottery: raku ware. Unlike Rikyu, though, Koetsu got his hands dirty, shaping the clay, carving it with knife and spatula...
...Centro, Calif., recalls the 1996 attack on his father that landed him there. "I remember seeing my hands covered in blood after I punched him," he says. De Santiago served time for that crime (and a few others that included drug abuse and threatening his family with a knife), and as a consequence may lose his permanent-resident status. After 26 years in the U.S., he is waiting to find out whether he will be sent back to Mexico, roughly 15 miles away. Fiddling with the red jumpsuit that identifies him as a high-risk detainee, he explains that...
...brightest"; in Princeton, N.J. Bundy supported aerial attacks on North Vietnam in 1965 but reluctantly backed the large-scale introduction of U.S. troops. Later he was critical of Henry Kissinger's secretive attempts to disentangle America from the war. "Everyone in the State Department is trying to knife me in the back, except for Bill Bundy," Kissinger said after becoming Nixon's National Security Adviser. "He is still enough of a gentleman to knife me in the chest...