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...more ideological, more conservative. He's just much more interested in domestic policy than his father." The big guns from Dad's White House, the Bakers and Scowcrofts, would be heard but not seen, but all their younger, less visible deputies, like Condi Rice and Larry Lindsey, climbed onboard for a second tour. "The whole goal was to be different from the father," says an official who has worked for both father and son. "It didn't need to be written down. There weren't that many people who needed to know. The basic thing was to look more conservative...
...first-graders had shown no progress toward reading, a majority now advanced at a normal rate. But, says Thompson, "we couldn't take it to scale. We had all these schools with all this need, and we only had the money to do it small"--until the Barksdales got onboard...
...possible no one aboard Zvezda will be sleeping much anyway, since the ship was built with so little noise muffling that the crew has to wear earplugs to shut out the din of onboard equipment. Then there's the temporary lack of shielding to protect the module from a rogue meteor hit--a potential calamity that could keep any astronaut awake at night...
Last month Republicans, Democrats and the White House seemed to be onboard behind the increase. Committees in both houses of Congress passed bills raising the cap by differing amounts. Then the Clinton Administration, eyeing a window of political opportunity, upped the ante last month, proposing also to grant legal status to some illegal aliens. It's about "fairness and equity," says Gene Sperling, director of President Clinton's National Economic Council. Key Democrats quickly adopted the initiative, targeted at immigrants from Central America and Haiti living...
Finally, I'd pay extra for an onboard supercomputer able to sense a parking spot 10 blocks away and beam an electronic force field there to save it until I arrived. Whoops, this just in: experts now forecast that by the year 2025 there won't be any parking spots. Drat! There goes the age-old dream of a handheld, Star Wars-based, in-car parking-meter jamming device...