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...going to feign shock at the fact that this President is using photo ops in an attempt - some might say a cynical attempt - to influence public opinion. It would be news if he weren't doing just that. But it is worth noting that in the same week that Bush ventured to a pristine piece of the country to help maintain a nature trail and to tout the money he's put in his budget to help restore national parks, the news out of Washington carried a very different message. The Washington Post ran an article about the Bush Administration...
Meanwhile, Bush was satisfying his Republican shock troops in the West, and antagonizing greens, with this week's House approval of his plan to drill for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. So there was little cost in offering a nod to environmentalists in the East, and what more conspicuous a target than Welch, who had enjoyed the Administration's largesse this summer and will soon retire anyway. "It's something you can give Pataki at the same time you're standing up to one of the largest companies in the world [and] striking a blow for the environment...
...Hours of interviews, swooping cameras over the badly dressed crowd, ads for ladies' shaving gel grudgingly interrupted by musical performances...come to think of it, kind of like watching the music-TV network itself these days. Even TOMMY LEE slurping host CARSON DALY's stubbled puss wasn't a shock--Lee did Puffy Combs at the MTV Movie Awards in June. The five original VJs-- from left, ALAN HUNTER, MARTHA QUINN, J.J. JACKSON, MARK GOODMAN and NINA BLACKWOOD--tried to get into the spirit, with only partial success. Said Blackwood, a radio host in Denver, of MTV now: "It doesn...
...unit in the Stockholm suburb of Kista for the past three years. Last month Masifi, who earned $1,700 a month with overtime, was called in to his supervisor's office and told that he was among 225 employees in his department being laid off. "I was a bit shocked, but I believe that God has a purpose in everything," said Masifi, who is married with a young child. In Masifi's case God - and the government - will provide. In Sweden, employees who lose their jobs are cocooned from many of the harsh realities of unemployment, at least initially. Jobless...
...year or two or three, if things are quiet enough at the White House, maybe Bush will make another speech, send out the congressional shock troops and give his old buddy Rummy a real chance to shine...