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...those $300 and $600 rebate checks have been sent out. Now Bush must hope that taxpayers use that money to spark a rebound or that the Fed's rate cuts ignite a rally on Wall Street. The other elements of Bush's proposed cure--freer trade and energy reform--face hurdles in Congress and, even if enacted, offer more distant relief...
...Bush will spend this week on his favorite topic, education, in an effort to get his stripped-down reform plan out of Congress and onto his desk. And toward the end of the month he will launch what aides are touting as a major new initiative called "Communities of Character"--an attempt to spur responsible behavior through policies aimed at teaching character education in schools, helping the children of prison inmates and encouraging volunteerism. Bush will also make simple bully-pulpit appeals to patriotic and civic pride. "It's why he ran for office," says White House Counsellor Karen Hughes...
This combination of political score settling, commitment to reform and nationalism has so far proved to be political gold. Few of those who worked with a younger Koizumi would ever have predicted such popularity for him. At 35, he was still unmarried, a major drawback for an ambitious politician. A matchmaker was consulted, and Koizumi picked out a photo of a kimono-clad university student 14 years his junior. He proposed the day after their first date, and in 1978 Koizumi and Kayoko Miyamoto were wed before 2,500 guests. The marriage didn't last, and in 1982, after having...
...convinced pivotal G.O.P. moderates that he cares about them too. And he should. In a closely divided House, their votes carry more weight. "I don't know of anyone else who could be Speaker now," says moderate G.O.P. Representative Christopher Shays, who's clashed with Hastert on campaign-finance reform but describes the Speaker as possessing "the proper temperament for the country...
...reality-check week for the Prime Minister, and for the people who believe he is the man who can pull the country out of its economic doldrums. The unremitting bad news rattled Koizumi into tracking back, ever so slightly, from his promises of speedy, painful reform. That pledge he made in July to limit government borrowing this year to $8.25 billion? Now he says that's just a target, not written in stone. Those big-spending supplementary budgets he derided in his stump speeches? Koizumi now thinks one will be necessary this year, after all. The three-year deadline...