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...some in the Bush administration describe British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he should feel right at home in straight-talkin' Texas during his visit to the President's Crawford Ranch this week. "Blair's not a Eurowimp," says a senior White House aide. "He's not ponderous or hand wringing. He gets to the bottom line, and that's [George] Bush's cup of tea." That's high praise from an Administration that puts such value on straight shooting. It's also a setup. As Bush contemplates military action against Iraq, he hopes he will be able to count...
...some in the Bush administration describe British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he should feel right at home in straight-talkin' Texas during his visit to the President's Crawford Ranch this week. "Blair's not a Eurowimp," says a senior White House aide. "He's not ponderous or hand wringing. He gets to the bottom line, and that's [George] Bush's cup of tea." That's high praise from an Administration that puts such value on straight shooting. It's also a setup. As Bush contemplates military action against Iraq, he hopes he will be able to count...
Next week the Prime Minister flies to Texas for several days of talks at Bush's 650-hectare ranch in Crawford. Many sessions are expected to be one-on-one, including a dust-stirring tour lasting several hours. What to do about Saddam Hussein is the overwhelming topic. British and American officials wave off any thought that war is imminent. A Bush aide calls Crawford a "blue sky" meeting, that is, one for thinking big; a British official agrees that "this isn't a planning summit, it's an ideas summit...
Williams too has everything, in a sense: a wife, three children, a home in San Francisco, a ranch in Northern California, Picassos and a private jet. The fact that he is again hitting the road at 50, sweating and joking and nursing a shoulder he dislocated in January, says something about his compulsion to hear people laugh...
...well-worn heirlooms. Gold calls his furniture philosophy "relaxed design," which means elegant and affordable, old and new, all at the same time. It makes deracinated college students feel as if they're at home, urban hipsters feel as if they're in the country and suburban yuppies in ranch houses feel like aristocrats, all for a reasonable price. Restoration Hardware founder Stephen Gordon, no stranger to selling nostalgia, compares Gold with Ralph Lauren: "He doesn't really offer a 1930s suit, because nobody would wear it, but he offers the associations of a 1930s suit...