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Over the last few years, the president has used the same basic political calculation to ram much of his conservative program down the throats of the American people. He starts with a radically conservative proposal—such as absurdly tough guidelines for military tribunals, lax labor protections in the new Department of Homeland Security and, his latest, abolishing dividend taxes. His far-right base sees him taking a principled stand...
...dispute. Following a court order, government archaeologists last week began probing the dusty parcel with a ground-penetrating-radar magnometer capable of detecting a buried foundation and other subsurface ruins. Hindus hope the machine will bolster their claim that an ancient temple marking the birthplace of the god Ram once stood there?superseding the Muslim claim that dates back to the 16th century, when Mughal invaders erected a mosque on the site...
...allied efforts elsewhere, in Asia, Russia and the Middle East. "We've got a fundamentally multilateral foreign policy," claims a senior State official. But there are no permanent victories for Powell. His detractors say he is doing little more than sanding the rough edges off the hard-liners' battering ram. "You'd have to say," says a senior Administration official, "the Cheney-Rumsfeld wing overall has been predominant because we're about to go to war with Saddam." --By Massimo Calabresi
Battering Ram...
...clip annually. "The baby boomers are fueling this long-term trend," explains Craig Jackson, president of Barrett-Jackson. "They want to own the cars of their youth." Coveted wheels include '50s sports cars like the Corvette and muscle cars of the late '60s and early '70s like the Pontiac Ram...