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Maybe in a previous life George W. Bush traveled the land selling snake oil. What ails ya? Nothin' his bottled cure-all wouldn't fix. Naturally, he would be long gone when the mob returned with tar and feathers. In this life some things have changed. Snake oil is out; tax cuts are in. High energy prices got ya down? A tax cut will make the spike affordable. Might lose your job in the slowdown? A tax cut will turn this economy around and save your paycheck. That's the Bush pitch: tax cuts as a nostrum for everything...
...Bush faces a fight in Congress to open ANWR. One spill in Alaska could forever tar the Administration
...golf after being told of the Greeneville sub disaster - and no one was particularly surprised. For the past decade, Japan's slow slide and slower internal response have been marginally better cause in the U.S. for schadenfreude than sympathy. But feeling superior is one thing; getting dragged into the tar pit of global depression by the industrialized world's most stubbornly ineffectual government is quite another...
Princeton will now face the No. 5 team in the country, the North Carolina Tar Heels, in the opening round of the Big Dance. Barring an upset of titanic proportions, the Tigers will likely be easily dismissed, much like Penn the past two years...
...Certainly accidents happen, and things get ugly: In June 1995, 22 million gallons of hog waste spilled into tributaries leading to the New River, killing thousands of fish. And when Hurricane Floyd hit in 1999, waste from pits and lagoons was pumped into fields, which then flooded into the Tar, Neuse and Cape Fear tributaries...