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...four issues - juvenile justice reform, tort reform, education and welfare reform. He was coached to talk about those four issues and that was all he did talk about. He had become the precise opposite of the rambling scatter-shooter I had met in his office. He was somewhat wooden, but he stuck to the four issues relentlessly and it proved to be a winning strategy. In fact he was so wooden and so programmed that I don't think anyone was prepared for what happened next...
Finding that it's somewhat easier to campaign against the previous administration's energy policy (or lack of it, as the charge went) than change it, the Bush administration on Tuesday gave California two more weeks to get its electric house in order...
...business via cell phones and the Internet, which has search sites that rank the city's top hosts by looks and charm quotient. For the customers, Japan's trend-conscious young women, a night at a host bar is part thrill, part danger. The thrill, of course, is somewhat sexual: the guys are attentive, hunky and dangle the possibility they might be available after the clubs close. The danger is financial: after entrance fees, host commissions and nosebleed-priced drinks, a customer can rack up a $10,000 bill in a single night...
...These were the words of man who follows an extraordinarily large-looming president in Bill Clinton and seems determined to enter this Oval Office somewhat smaller and more modestly. The pundits and papers are likely to seize on those mentions of "personal responsibility" as a Clinton kiss-off, but from Bush they also sound like a vision - a vision of a nation led lightly and widely, of a presidency by consensus from a president who never really...
...This somewhat pathetic rant can easily be viewed a very bored student embittered by harsh realities. And so what...