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...first Crimson score after the break was representative of the Crimson's half. At the 18:11 mark, Tubridy took the ball in for a lay-up and was fouled by Columbia sophomore guard Megan O'Neill. Tubridy, whose older sister was a Columbia star, strode to the line and calmly sank the free throw. Harvard was able to score almost at will in the second half, and the team often had the chance to ice the cake at the foul line...
...expect from Paul O'Neill. But expecting congressional Democrats and Republicans to scrimp and save every year in order to send Americans an annual surplus dividend for which they'd share the credit? That's a very long shot indeed...
...First, Bush swore in his new treasury secretary and fiscal emissary to Congress, Paul O'Neill, with the usual rhetoric: "Because our government has a surplus does not mean that every American family has a surplus. Many families are feeling squeezed by high energy prices and credit-card debt. We need to give them their own money back...
...Taxes must fit into a budget, which they will," Bush assured reporters after a White House meeting with Hill Republicans. But as yet, the administration is still working on the details. That's because O'Neill not only wants to head off what he can of the expected Democratic resistance - the booming surplus and sagging economy has raised their counteroffer up to $800 billion, but they're still fighting for income cutoffs for the wealthy and more targeted cuts for the poor - but he's also looking for ways to speed the cut's impact on the economy, like...
...Neill will be the guy who walks Bush's final proposition up the Hill, and while he'll have areas on which Bush won't bend - and on which he and the Lotts and Hasterts have already agreed - the new man at Treasury will have his hands full getting a package past both parties in a neatly divided Congress in presidential time...