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...Some speeches fit the man and some don't. This one did. Bush's inaugural was hyperpoetic, filled with rococo imagery of "ghosts in the storm" and "travelers in Jericho." This time, it was plainspoken like the man: A little bit funny, a little bit tough. It was Andover and Midland. It had West Texas touches of humor but also echoes of Bush's grandfather, Connecticut sdenator Prescott Bush. When Dubya said of America "to whom much is given much is expected," he could have been talking about himself and his own privileged background. His talk about the nobility...
...economies beyond American borders. But for the time being, people from Wall Street to Main Street just getting to know O'Neill can imagine him as sort of a Greenspan in street clothes, a Republican fiscal pragmatist who loves crunching numbers and getting his hands dirty, even if his plainspoken days may soon be behind...
...plainspoken, sharp-witted man who uses his folksiness as a shield, Sauls, 59, may prove to be the most important jurist in the legal feud over the presidency. On Saturday he listened to nine hours of argument and testimony. Bush lawyers cross-examined Gore's only two witnesses for what seemed an eternity. The slow-moving Republicans then presented two of their 20 witnesses before Sauls recessed for the day. He will rule whether Gore would have won Florida's coveted electoral votes if 14,000 undervoted ballots had been properly counted by hand. But the thought of being...
...plainspoken, sharp-witted man who uses his folksiness as a shield, Sauls, 59, may prove to be the most important jurist in the legal feud over the presidency. On Saturday he listened to nine hours of argument and testimony. Bush lawyers cross-examined Gore's only two witnesses for what seemed an eternity. The slow-moving Republicans then presented two of their 20 witnesses before Sauls recessed for the day. He will rule whether Gore would have won Florida's coveted electoral votes if 14,000 undervoted ballots had been properly counted by hand. But the thought of being...
DAVID BOIES Slays Microsoft, aids Napster and defends Gore with plainspoken ways. Not bad for one year...