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Into this mess comes the relative inexperience of Bush, whose vice president voted against Head Start and among whose first official acts was to declare Sunday a national day of prayer and thanks-giving...
Asking Americans to "bow their heads in humility before our heavenly Father" as well as making eight explicitly religious references during his 14-minute inaugural speech worries those who know it will take a lot more than prayer to solve our social problems...
...easy to require neckties, harder to roll back policies. Clinton's high approval rating and Bush's loss of the popular vote make drastic ideological shifts nearly impossible. And so Bush started small on Saturday, using his executive power for the first time to establish a national day of prayer and tinker with ethics rules governing the behavior of White House employees. His first 180 days of policymaking will feature a plan to roll back some Clinton tax increases, but Bush wants to spend more time and energy defining his own agenda - reforming schools, reorganizing the military and funding faith...
...other points mentioned—school prayer, the Microsoft anti-trust case and the federal funding of religious organizations—are all contentious issues on which Ashcroft holds strong beliefs. However, a person’s ideology should not prevent him or her from holding this office...
Gates knows all about hitting big threes at Leede Arena--in her freshman year, she threw up a prayer from just beyond half-court that found that net and gave Harvard a 65-63 win. No such heroics were necessary at game's end on Saturday, because Gates made a clutch three to open Harvard's scoring this time around...