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...excelled at grand themes, but he seems to believe that the detail work necessary to give themes substance can be delegated or finessed. His domestic agenda is a joke. There is no program - except for the never-ending quest for unwarranted (and unwanted, if the polls are right) tax cuts and a quietly corrosive effort to undermine existing government rules and regulations. Bush faces rebellion by members of his own party in Congress who are dismayed by the superficial nature of his Administration. "When was the last time the White House took an active leadership position on anything?" a Senate...
...This, then, is a hinge moment in the history of Bush II. There has been lots of drama. Saddam and the Taliban have been routed. A tax cut has passed, another is proposed. But real progress, at home and abroad, requires real governance. Two questions will have to be answered in the 18 months before Election Day 2004: Is this Administration going to concern itself only with grand gestures? And if those gestures are not backed by substance, will the American people notice or care...
...popularity after the first Gulf War. Only moments after watching on TV a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in Baghdad, Bush met with top advisers last week to discuss ways to pass as much as possible of his proposal to stimulate the economy with $726 billion in tax cuts...
...apartheid crimes, but he announced a one-time cash payment, amounting to less than $4,000, for each of some 22,000 victims identified by the trc. The commission had recommended a payout almost four times as high. Mbeki further rejected the trc's idea of a wealth tax on businesses for their role in supporting apartheid, and denounced the multimillion-dollar claims being instigated in U.S. courts against companies that allegedly benefited from apartheid. Former trc commissioner Dumisa Ntsebeza, now counsel for an Apartheid Claims Task Force set up to represent victims filing lawsuits against some companies, said Mbeki...
...lost - and then there might just be a punch-up. Speak to the younger players, though, and it's clear the real draw is not the glitz but the cash. Winnings can range from ?15 to ?1.5 million and someone nabs a prize every three minutes. With a bingo tax cut included in Britain's new budget, players will now take home more prize money. Nineteen-year-old Nicola Frew likes those odds. After being dragged to a game by her mother, she pocketed ?650. Now she plays three times a week. "I just enjoy the adrenaline," she says...