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...Monday, the anticipation - and the low expectations that are clearly part of Bush's formula. Tuesday, the payoff, a long, funny, aw-shucks tour de force that actually sounded like Bush could have written it himself (unlike that beautiful but somewhat ill-fitting inaugural). Wednesday morning, the budget hit Congress and the speech reviews hit the papers; Bush's approval ratings, and the approval ratings for the tax cut, went up among the largely Republican viewers. Thursday, the budget was the major papers' top story of choice, and in the House, Republicans sprinted forward with the tax-cut ball...
...payoff pitch And then, almost without warning, Bush - or his speechwriter, anyway - hit his showman's stride. Because as soon as he wrapped up again, and closed with "our surpluses are big enough that there is still money left over" - you could feel it coming. Here comes the tax cut, right...
...Even so, dog cloning is a commercial opportunity, with a nice research payoff. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, Westhusin's phone at A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine has been ringing with people calling in hopes of duplicating their cats and dogs, cattle and horses. "A lot of people want to clone pets. A lot of people. Especially if the price is right," says Westhusin, raising his eyebrows. "A lot." Cost is no obstacle for Missy's mysterious West Coast billionaire owner; he's plopped down $3.7 million so far to fund...
...finance homes in any vacation spot one might fancy. Everything one says is wise, and everything one writes goes straight to the best-seller list. Ex-Presidents do good works, make the occasional peacemaking mission, oversee the construction of a shrine for their White House relics. The biggest payoff of all as a former President transubstantiates from pol to statesman is seeing the traits that annoyed and enraged people while he was in office--Harry Truman's commonness, George Bush's blandness, Jimmy Carter's righteousness--come to be regarded as virtues. To be a successful ex-President, Bill Clinton...
...online free-music commune (from each according to his collection, to each according to his tastes) on Tuesday announced that come summer, it would start charging its users a subscription fee between $5.95 and $9.95 for downloads - and kick in a five-year, $1 billion payoff to the five major music companies...