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Skirting the newspapers makes sense for a President who last week reminded us in a Fox TV interview that he doesn't really read them. It was a good week not to. Bush's approval ratings fell to the lowest point of his presidency. His trip to the U.N. was panned for winning no new support. On Capitol Hill, Administration officials were being pounded for faulty postwar planning and facing charges from Democrats that they still weren't coming clean about the costs. Conservative Republicans were in their own mini-revolt over spending on prisons and post offices in Iraq...
...number of Americans to whom those benefits are obvious right now is in decline. In the latest Gallup poll, Bush's approval ratings dropped to 50%, the lowest since right before Sept. 11, 2001. Some critics of the Administration's hard-liners pull no punches. "It reminds me of Vietnam," says retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, who headed the U.S. Central Command from 1997 to 2000. "Here we have some strategic thinkers who have long wanted to invade Iraq. They saw an opportunity, and they used the imminence of the threat and the association with terrorism and the 9/11 emotions...
...Enormous!" Raffarin exclaimed in an interview with Time at his office in the Hôtel Matignon in Paris' seventh arrondissement. But, he added, "We have to be attentive to the nervous nature of French society." How nervous is France? Right now Raffarin's approval rating is 38%, the lowest point of his 16-month tenure, down from a high of 63% last December. So you might expect the Prime Minister - tasked with running domestic policy while President Jacques Chirac plays diplomatic chess with George W. Bush - to be feeling a little anxious himself. It's not just his popularity...
Lefty Mark Mulder, who has been out since suffering a stress fracture in his hip in August, had the lowest ERA among Oakland’s starters in the 2002 playoffs at 2.08. The next lowest was Zito’s at a less-than-stellar 4.50, and he’s been nowhere near Cy Young form this year...
Cisneros pointed to the lowest step in the continuum as one of the areas most in need of assistance...