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...papers or stopping the mail. He did have to resuscitate his education plan, persuade lawmakers to vote for his industry-friendly energy proposals and get his preferred version of HMO reform through the House. And so a President not known for working overtime managed to grind out a string of victories. The House easily passed Bush's energy package, which includes the Alaska drilling provision the pundits had declared dead. His education plan moved toward resolution; the Senate even passed his $5.5 billion emergency farm-aid bill after Democrats dropped demands for more money. And the President's biggest...
...tuition working behind the counter of a Kentucky Fried Chicken while his wife baby-sat to make extra money. Their first son was born there, and retains his American citizenship. Thaksin and his wife would have four more children. Upon his return to Thailand, Thaksin embarked on a string of disastrous business endeavors. He joined the Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau and began teaching at police schools, his salary from the department coming to about $150 a month. While many police in Thailand are notorious for supplementing their income with graft and payoffs, Thaksin, to his credit, instead cooked up numerous...
...stanchions holding up the pipe. Road widths also are conveniently left out of the space limit. "It's a complete sham," complains Allen Mattison, a spokesman for the Sierra Club which opposes drilling. "It's like a fishing net. If you count just the space of the string's width, that's small. But if you open up a fishing net and count the area it covers, that's much larger." Environmentalists complain that the House limit ends up allowing oil companies to spread out over practically the entire 1.5 million acres...
...Still, even with his string of successes, questions arose about a president taking another vacation, this one four weeks long, just six months into his first year on the job. And so, the sojourn evolved each time it was mentioned: First, it was a vacation. Then it was a working vacation. Soon the Bush?s Texas home had been turned into the White House of the high plains, simply a change of scenery for a hard-working...
...author of the best-titled book of the '90s (We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda) has taken on another grim reconstruction: a 27-year-old murder. No car-chase thrills here, merely the gathering of string, knotted together to lasso the perpetrator, who is the guy everyone thought it was all along. Gourevitch is more interested in context, argot and character than plot. The book is the better...