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Beyond saying that "unnecessary spending" must be targeted, the President has suggested few specific cuts of his own so far. During a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin the day after his televised speech, however, Bush stressed that more tax cuts remained a top priority. Neither side of the aisle has seemed capable of demonstrating fiscal prudence and compassion simultaneously, while the President, hobbled by a $331 billion budget deficit, an unpopular and expensive war in Iraq, and an official admission that he mishandled the initial crisis, could neither afford his Gulf Coast largesse--nor afford not to extend...
...shock waves from Beslan are still felt far beyond the town. Many Russians were profoundly shaken by the television footage of dead and terribly injured children. And the Kremlin's failure to protect its people was another blow to President Vladimir Putin's image as a tough, take-charge leader. For Stanislav Kesayev, deputy speaker of the North Ossetian regional parliament and a critic of the Kremlin's handling of Beslan, the chaos surrounding the school seizure and the botched rescue attempt is symptomatic of the way Russian officials treat ordinary people as "cattle." "I teach law," says Kesayev...
...will include a gold-painted structure said to depict a tree of life, will be unveiled at the cemetery where most casualties are buried. Next week, two new schools will open, one with tennis courts and the other with a pool. After a year of near-total silence, Putin has said he will meet a vociferously critical group of mothers who lost children in the tragedy...
...media had a field day, reporting that while Kraft thought he was just showing his ring to Putin, the Russian president assumed it was a gift. To avoid embarrassment, Kraft released a statement later to the effect that Putin had been so taken with the ring that, "At that point I decided to give him the ring as a symbol of the respect and admiration that I have for the Russian people and the leadership of President Putin...
...harm done, either way: Putin got the ring - and properly turned it over to the state depository for gifts, according to his staff. Kraft made the ring a gift to Putin to demonstrate his respect - and, one hopes, his intention to invest in Russia to his and Russia's mutual profit. However, the morning after this ring-giving, I heard a remake of the 30 year-old Brezhnev joke: Putin, Bush and Chirac meet at a party. Bush shows off his steel ring, inscribed with: "To our leader from the GOP." Chirac sports a silver band, inscribed with the words...