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...Frisk 'Em" Whitman and Ashcroft, whose civil-rights record conservatives call principled and liberals call horrendous. Whitman, cleverly shelved as an EPA appointee, will be had to nail. But Ashcroft, a justifiable bogeyman as the nation's top law enforcer, will severely test Senate Democrats' proclivities toward giving a smooth ride to a fellow club member. Will Ashcroft be the Clarence Thomas of this Bush administration, or its John Tower? If it gets ugly enough, we may see Frank Keating return to public service after...
...Bush could be in for a battle over Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson - a pioneer of welfare reform and dedicated pro-lifer - who could take over the Department of Health and Human Services. In fact, some observers say the President-elect may be trying to smooth the path for his more contentious nominees by floating the name of New Jersey governor Christie Todd Whitman, a liberal, pro-choice Republican, who is expected to take the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency...
...business cycle tends to feed off itself, and slowdowns have a way of slingshotting into recessions. Which is Greenspan's job, to smooth out the bumps, and after eight years of economic good times his status as a pilot is legendary. He never claimed to be able to beat the cycle, even after he became a New Economy convert - he'd just rather it bounced between 7 percent and 3 percent annual GDP growth, instead of something on both sides of zero...
...Both men have made much of their intentions to help smooth the rocky road of transition, as the Gore family packs up to make room for the Cheneys, and the Bushes commission moving vans to take them to Pennsylvania Avenue. But for Gore, more than anyone else who's out of a job on January 20, the challenge does not lie in the few weeks before Inauguration Day, but in the months and years that follow. What will this lifelong public servant do with himself in the unexpected and inescapable void yawning out ahead...
...TIME-LIFE Building, where he met with editors and writers preparing cover stories about him. Jackson has many speaking voices - from hard street (almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy as Harvard. He speaks these various styles of English with virtuosity - a repertoire that ranges from unlettered field hand to articulate overlord...