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...Democrats' strategy is not risk-free; if they fight hard and lose, they might end up empowering the new President. And with three, possibly four, targets, "they're going to spread themselves too thin," predicts Clint Bolick, a Chavez ally who is head of a conservative legal-advocacy group called the Institute for Justice. "They're not going to take a single scalp because they're going to go after too many...
...Hillary wanted an instant Washington salon, as grand as her health care plan, with as many rooms as her ambition. There will be no cramped weekday existence for her, like the members who live large in their home states but modestly in D.C. Senator John McCain stays in a thin-walled Crystal City high-rise, with jets from National Airport shrieking overhead. The senior Senator from New York, Charles Schumer, bunked for years with four guys. Others sleep in their offices and shower in the gym, as House majority leader Dick Armey used...
...technicals"--trucks and pickups with rear-mounted antiaircraft and antitank guns--in the city. Afrah, however, scoffs at the notion that warlord power is slipping. "This is our business," he says, as he points out the features of his battle wagons with a long thin stick tipped with a small-caliber bullet shell...
Brown is not alone. Like the wagon-train homesteaders who traveled west only to straggle back to civilization when their crops didn't grow in the thin soil, the pioneers behind Inside.com--magazine veterans all--and a number of similar websites have seen the future, paused, reflected and decided to trek back to the past. Along with [Inside], new magazines such as Space Illustrated, Nerve, Travelocity and Expedia Travels have morphed from their cyber origins. What happened...
...their own - but some suspect he may wish he hadn't been. Democrats complain the former Missouri senator embodies far too many of their least favorite qualities: As of Thursday Ashcroft's nomination is opposed by pro-choice advocates, environmentalists, civil rights organizations and labor groups. If resources run thin and activists are forced to choose one nominee to oppose with all their might, many seem to feel Ashcroft is their...