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...must assume a major portion of the responsibility for getting Mr. Bush back to the center," wrote The New York Times editorial board on the day after Jefford's announcement. "Fundamentally, they have talked an excellent game in preaching unity, bipartisanship and inclusiveness but have handled Congress in a rough, even presumptuous manner...
...Jeffords? After triggering the GOP's loss of the Senate and the biggest political humiliation of the Bush presidency, the newly minted Independent from Vermont might have expected rough treatment from the Bushies - or at least the cold shoulder. But, like McCain, Jeffords won a visit to the White House instead, for a meeting on education policy. Even Daschle received the new soap- suds treatment. For plotting the defection that embarrassed the president, Daschle, too, is being rewarded with a dinner at the nation's most famous mansion. Like McCain, he might want to bring his own food-testers...
THEODORE OLSON Confirmed as Solicitor General, gets in under the wire-- before the Dems start getting rough...
Since 1996, Abyss Creations has shipped more than 800 of the jarringly lifelike sex dolls. Each week between six and eight beauties are tarted up in bra, panties and stockings and loaded into rough wooden crates for delivery from San Marcos, California, to their new owners. The dolls' creator, 32-year-old Matt McMullen, is disarmingly normal. Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant. His merchandise, on the other hand, is way out there. The five body types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith...
...have been working on a Theory of Negative Compensations. The rough idea is that the smarter our machines get, the dumber our lives become. I'm not there yet, but the evidence is accumulating. You have probably noted as many examples of the phenomenon as I have...