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The non-surprise is Tommy Thompson for secretary of Health and Human Services. A staunch pro-lifer and welfare-reform pioneer, Thompson is a conservative star and one of the generation of Republican "pragmatist" governors that made it possible for Bush to run for president in the first place.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubya's Cozy Cabinet Formula | 12/29/2000 | See Source »

But Greenspan has left Bush a handy platform in the meantime. A growing chorus of economists think Greenspan's last half-point hike in May was overkill, and that the slowdown is indeed happening too fast. The markets are demanding a full point of interest rate cuts from the Fed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Selling of the Tax Cut: First Stop Greenspan | 12/27/2000 | See Source »

Bush's choices have been strategic. He has tapped people from the two most politically-important states: Florida (Housing designate Mel Martinez) and California (Veneman). He has also stretched his arms to embrace the two flanks of his party, represented on the GOP's left by Christine Whitman (who is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Proves a Deft Cabinet-Maker — So Far, Anyway | 12/26/2000 | See Source »

The anger that swept Capitol Hill last week, as Democrats struggled to accept the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to stop the Florida recount and award the presidency to George W. Bush, wasn't confined to Gore's friends. Since he doesn't have many of those on the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Bush Bring Us Together? | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

You wouldn't have thought it possible early this year that spin could play an even larger role in American life than it already did. Straight-talking politicians (John McCain) were all the rage, and trendoids assured us that in the larger culture as well, sincerity was in while irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Spin Machine | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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