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...moderate Republicans, Sen. James Jeffords and Sen. Lincoln Chafee, have announced they are leery of a tax cut as high as $1.6 trillion. Jeffords likely will be brought back into the GOP fold, say Republican and Democratic Senate sources, but Chafee is a problem for Bush. So is Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has been talking up the idea of a "trigger" to kick in a higher tax cut only if surplus projections...
...Brooks Range and east of the Canning River--a section known as Area 1002. Murkowski's legislation, like the Bush recommendations that will follow it, faces stiff opposition in the evenly divided Senate, not just from Democrats but from a key bloc of at least eight Republicans--Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, James Jeffords of Vermont, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois and Gordon Smith of Oregon--who have the power to defeat the bill. (Only three Democratic Senators, Louisiana's John Breaux and Daniel Inouye...
...W.O.D. chuckled. "Son, try and peer around the corner just a little harder. Suppose Mr. Bush names a Clarence Thomas type. Can he get him confirmed? With 49 or 50 Democrats, and Republicans like Jim Jeffords and Olympia Snowe and those other moderates? All that'll do is fire up our base. In fact, pray he does name a fire breather. He loses in the Senate, and we get, oh, maybe $20 million or so for the next election...
...disorders to explain people who vary from the norm that it's insane. People are more than just chemical reactions, and we do not all need to be clones of the same prototype. I applaud the Lipscombs for doing the best they can and striving for better. CAROLYN SUAREZ Olympia, Wash...
...hoping for some crossover curiosity. As maestro of the Olympic Arts Festival, which opens this week, he has brought some 4,000 artists from around the globe to compete for attention over the next six weeks. In founding the modern Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin sought to recreate ancient Olympia, when "letters and the arts were always harmoniously combined with sport." But after his Pentathlon of the Muses was abandoned in 1948, Olympic arts have often been sidelined by sport. "Whatever festival you mount, it will only ever be a pendant event to what is, after all, the biggest festival...