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...chapel which had a mural of Christ behind the pulpit. My question is: did the photographer/editor mean the cropping to be a mischievous reference to Bush's steady invocations of Christ on the campaign trail, did he mean it to be a positive commentary on the Republican front-runner, or was it just a coincidence? If it was the latter, let's hope it's the last. Religious imagery and rhetoric in politics are alarming both because of the moral superiority implied by candidates who eagerly proclaim their faith and because of the time devoted to exclusionary religious discussion which...
What's the best way to deliver an unpleasant message to George W. Bush? You say little, and let the evidence speak for itself. So, just after Christmas, when the Republican front runner returned to Texas after shaky moments in three debates, he was handed a tape. It had to be to the point because, as Bush told TIME last week aboard his campaign bus, "I'm not gonna watch hours of tapes of myself, and I don't want to rehash all those debates." But this tape was crystalline in its message: it had been carefully edited to exclude...
...lose in New Hampshire, Bush's biggest long-term asset against McCain is his ability to rally the armies of the Republican establishment to his cause. As the front runner began to falter last fall, the donors, officeholders and interest-group activists who make up the G.O.P. elite began plotting ways to prop him up. In Washington, according to several top Bush supporters, word went out that any defections to McCain would be treated as a betrayal of the party's best interests. "There was a clear understanding that you don't screw around with the primal forces of nature...
...actually closer to $440 million, but why quibble? The point is that Forbes, pretty much forgotten by the national media, has not gone away. He has been quietly pouring millions into Iowa, plotting to wipe that smirk off Republican front runner George W. Bush's face...
...have just one question concerning your Person of the Year: Who was the runner-up? Martha Stewart? ROYAL NORMAN Scottsdale, Ariz...