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...Bush friend and fund-raiser whose previous life as an oilman didn't present much opportunity for him to make political enemies, looks primed to sail through his Senate confirmation hearings, which began Thursday. But congressional observers predict that other, less innocuous nominees could be in for a very rough ride, including ex-Missouri senator John Ashcroft, who is nominated for attorney general, and former Colorado attorney general Gale Norton, who has been named to head the Department of the Interior...
...there's a hand grenade rolling around the Old Man, we want you diving on it first. Karl is that way. You can name 20 others, and they'd be the ones rolling the grenade. You heard them all in the course of the campaign--when times were rough, they were all the anonymous second-guessers saying, "Bush needs to have more Washington experience." That's a code word for "Bush needs to have me, so I can tell some foreign government they need to double my fees, by saying I'm on the inside of the campaign." They make...
...been a rough few weeks for supporters of school vouchers. First came the Election Day defeat of ballot initiatives in California and Michigan that would have created statewide programs that return tax dollars to parents who send their kids to private schools. These measures fell by a ratio of more than 2 to 1, despite multimillion-dollar campaigns by wealthy voucher proponents. Then last week, in a verdict with nationwide consequences, a federal appeals court ruled that the voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio, violates the constitutional separation of church and state...
...rough homecoming for the two Duluth natives on the Crimson roster. Co-captain Angie Francisco and Kuusisto left their hometown to play for Harvard. Francisco was held without a point in both games, and Kuusisto was pulled from the second game after allowing three goals in ten minutes...
...phone that is on a direct line to his commander, Colonel Marcel Aviv. They spoke quickly, then Aviv listened in as Mor guided a helicopter into place above the target. At Mor's command, five missiles hammered into the refugee camp. Two hit the upper floors of the rough, cinder-block home of Omar Da'ajna. The Palestinian cook later said his children "shook like a tree in a storm" as they sheltered on the ground floor...