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...home base that is secluded from the commotion, yet infused with the city's imperial grandeur. Your best chance of finding that is at a riad, one of the converted traditional villas built around courtyards that are multiplying all over the country. After staying initially at a modest yet charming riad in the seaside city of Essaouria, my family and I decided to move closer to the action...
...White House expects a quick victory on Bush's Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, and the State of the Union speech will nod to big goals. But when it comes to fresh and concrete ideas, the list of what Bush will actually try to accomplish in 2006 is so modest that one bewildered Republican adviser calls it "an insult to incrementalism...
However improbable the odds at this point or modest his short-term goals, aides say, Bush still subscribes to Rove's long-held dream that his will be the transformational presidency that lays the groundwork for a Republican majority that can endure, as Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition did, for a half-century or more. Once he gets past the midterm elections, Bush plans to introduce a concept that, if anything, is even more ambitious than his failed Social Security plan: a grand overhaul that would include not only that program but Medicare and Medicaid as well. Says strategist...
...unclear whether the risks are paying off--at least financially. The black-and-white quasi-biopic Good Night, and Good Luck cost a modest $7 million and has earned $18 million at the box office to date. But North Country, the story of a single mother whose barbaric treatment in a Minnesota mine leads to the first sexual-harassment class action in the country, has been a commercial disappointment, so far recouping just half its $35 million budget...
...combined increase will bring a total rise of 11 percent for some projects—a modest increase over the four percent base and four percent incremental increases that took effect this year...