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...going on, so I haven't been in a very reflective mood," says the man who has just replaced half his Cabinet, dispatched 12,000 more troops into battle, arm wrestled lawmakers over an intelligence bill, held his third economic summit and begun to lay the second-term paving stones on which he will walk off into history. Asked about his re-election, he replies, "I think over the Christmas holidays it'll all sink...
Bush's famous loyalty, both to people and policies without apparent regard for performance, lay at the heart of the demands for contrition. His critics deplored the stubbornness that often prevents him from stretching beyond the limits of his experience. When it comes to setting policy, they argued, the risks of shutting out dissent and refusing to adjust course have become increasingly clear. But when it comes to running for office, his aides felt, there was a great advantage in having a candidate who set a strategy and then stuck to it as well as to his team...
...president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; as the new Archbishop of Atlanta, signaling his continued favor with the Vatican; by Pope John Paul II. Gregory's leadership during the church's sex-abuse crisis included establishing a policy on how to respond to abuse allegations and a lay panel to help enforce...
...band hasn’t always played this “rock music for the open road.” Palmer confesses that the band’s roots lay in “playing some trippy hip-hop version of an Elvis Costello song and wanting to form a Beach Boys tribute band...
...recording made Warren realize that all she wanted to do was write that album. She wrote a letter to the band explaining why she felt they had to do Presenting the Great Unknowns. Only then did the band’s sound start to come together to lay down the foundation for their current musical sensibility...