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Tomorrow marks the beginning of four years--at least--of the reign of George the Second, which promises to be a nervous one for those who care about the environment. George II has anointed Christine Todd Whitman, governor of New Jersey, as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...
But Republicans know that some of the nominations might prove costly. Bush's choice of Chavez, with her record of union bashing, means that "we have just blown up whatever inroads we had made with the Teamsters," says a seasoned G.O.P. strategist. Teamsters leader James Hoffa has been flirting with...
The third most tempting target for interest groups is Gale Norton, the former Colorado attorney general who is Bush's pick for Interior. She is being assailed by environmentalists, who now rival civil rights groups for clout on Capitol Hill. Norton, says Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope, "would be...
National security is much more than "fighting and winning wars for the U.S.," as Bush put it during his campaign. When announcing his choice for Energy Secretary, he acknowledged that "our national security depends on energy security." Let's hope that this statement was not merely a call for drilling...
"Her options were very limited in this case. Plavsic's problem is that she's not particularly popular at home, and it's difficult to imagine her hiding in small villages in the hills like Radovan Karadzic does, and she can't really seek refuge in Serbia because she's...