Word: turfing
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Taking center stage at this week's G-8 summit in Canada, President Bush will offer $500 million to fight HIV and AIDS in Africa. But behind his proposal lies a bureaucratic battle - and a story that speaks volumes about turf wars in Washington...
...year summer talking about a prescription-drug benefit and defending themselves on Social Security reform. "Bush finally has a domestic agenda," says a relieved White House adviser. But that doesn't mean there won't be arguments. The leaders of the House and Senate will be busy quelling the turf fights that have already begun. The biggest losers will be the Treasury Department, which would give up the Secret Service and Customs, and the Transportation Department, which would shed the Coast Guard...
...turf belongs not just to the shifting bureaucracies themselves but also to their employee unions, the lobbyists who do business with them and their patrons on Capitol Hill. Even before the President gave his speech Thursday night, House Transportation Committee chairman Don Young served notice on Speaker Dennis Hastert that he had no intention of giving up his committee's jurisdiction over the Coast Guard and the TSA. And California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who supports most of the Bush plan, insists his decision to include her district's Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapons lab in the new department is a mistake...
...hole in the back of the net. It's his third goal in 10 minutes?a rapid-fire hat trick. He slips off his lime-green shirt and runs, roaring, to strike a pose in front of his countrymen. Carefully, almost reverently, he places the shirt on the turf like an offering to the faithful. His fans bang bongos and clank cymbals and bellow right back. But hold on?aren't Nigeria's Super Eagles out of the World Cup, first-round casualties, winging their way back to Africa and ignominy? Not in Thailand, where they have firmed as favorites...
...Salvador Dali. Each of the teams is led out by the silicone jiggle of a "ladyboy" (Thailand's English term for transsexuals) to the off-key oom-pah-pahs of the prison brass band. Stubble shows through sweat-beaded pancake as the transsexuals teeter in stiletto heels on the turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged hula skirt that threatens to fall down. A thick papier-machE chain is snipped with giant scissors, and its two halves waft skyward, borne...