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During his first months in office, Bush focused on fulfilling his promise to cut taxes $1.6 trillion over 10 years. Democrats called the new President high-handed and stubborn, especially for one who could hardly claim popular support for so ambitious a policy; they were thinking maybe $500 billion. Bush's congressional liaison, Nick Calio, suggested to the President that he cut the price tag to buy some votes. But Bush's answer was always the same: "It's not time yet. We're going to say $1.6 trillion. People are going to get upset about...
...always come together, but it did for him." This includes some of the 30,000 on the Bush family's Christmas-card list who should have known better than to imagine that the son would essentially serve out the father's second term. They knew W. was charming and stubborn and sour-mouthed, much more like his mom than his dad. They knew he was more partisan by far than his father, that he loved to shock people--an amiable guy who still liked to pick a fight. But Republicans of all stripes wanted a restoration so badly, the moderates...
...barely showed any enamel when a group of cameramen asked her to flash her medal and shine after the victory. "Mary Lou was an open book," says Bela Karolyi, who coached Retton and whose wife Martha put together this year's women's team. "Carly is a little more stubborn." Stubborn enough to keep winning meets and--unlike many young, burned-out women's champions--perhaps defend her gold in four years. But don't expect a new temperament. "I don't know what I'd change into," says Patterson. "I'm going to stay the same Carly. It seems...
...holy city. The Shi'ites' truculent leader, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, vowed not to leave his bunker in the sect's sacred Imam Ali shrine "until the last drop of my blood has been spilled." The U.S. Marine colonel commanding American and Iraqi-government troops battling the stubborn gunmen of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army proclaimed his men were ready "to finish this fight that the Muqtada militia started." Iyad Allawi, the Prime Minister of Iraq's U.S.-backed interim government, declared there would be "no negotiation or truce" with the Shi'ite rebels. As the battle unfolded amid...
...could take the city, but we would have to kill everyone in it." MOHAMMED ABDULLAH AL-SHAHWANI, Iraq's director of national intelligence, on the difficulty of dealing with stubborn insurgents in the city of Fallujah...