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...impossible not to wonder whether the two of them might once again be crowding onto the same turf. Maureen Dowd wrote in the New York Times: "Al Gore must want to punch Hillary Clinton right through the hole in the ozone layer." Gore, however, took pains to tamp down that kind of talk. As he pointed out Chelsea Clinton in the audience at Town Hall last week, he added, "I want to commend to all of you Senator Clinton's important address on environmental policy...
...owned and operated by the Great Wall Drilling Co., a subsidiary of China's state-owned National Petroleum Corp., has hit several potential deposits of oil more than 3,000 m underground. And a second DNO rig is planned to go up nearby in June. DNO has tried to tamp down soaring expectations. Eide says that although there is "movable oil, we still don't know how much...
...least 55 people, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad suggested the crisis had passed because Iraq's elected leaders had decided to work together to avoid a civil war. Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table and to tamp down the belligerence of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the largest party in the Shi'ite alliance...
...donated $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign in 1988. Republican officials said she formerly was a conservative Democrat, and Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan noted that at that time most people in Texas political life were Democrats. "People are just surprised," said one official trying to tamp down naysaying...
...affection for standard operating procedure. But a presidential adviser tells TIME that Cheney was also concerned that the new office would invite more meddling by Congress and create another power center. "If you appoint a czar and he doesn't get what he wants, like if you start to tamp down the spending, all he has to do is go to the press and create sympathy for his viewpoint and make it difficult for the President," the adviser says. Bush and his inner circle agreed, with little debate, top aides said...