Word: turned
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...story Rove insists isn't true). But mostly Bush keeps Rove in line by keeping him off-balance, as he did last spring, when Rove's cellular phone started chirping in the middle of a high-level campaign meeting. The interruption annoyed Bush, who had asked Rove to turn his phone off during meetings. And so, after Rove left the room to take the call, Bush looked up and said, "Lock the door." Rove never got back in that day. But in Iowa last week, he was never far from the Governor's side...
Putin is expected to be confirmed by the Duma this week, but few give him a prayer of becoming Russia's next President. His anointment is less a strategic move in a long-range plan than a sudden turn taken by an enfeebled President preoccupied with survival. "The Kremlin's not playing chess," says Alexander Oslon, Russia's leading pollster. "They're playing checkers--they're living one day at a time." With the end of Yeltsin's second term 10 months away, the Family is beset by fear of humiliation, if not prosecution. ("The Ceausescu scenario," a Kremlin staff...
...exactly agriculture, but the drought currently affecting the eastern United States and parts of the Midwest appars to be having a devastating effect on another rural crop: fall foliage. The lack of moisture has caused trees in New England and beyond to dry up and turn brown ahead of schedule. This has local businesses worried that the lack of foliage could cause tourists to make like a tree and, well, not show up at all those cute bed-and-breakfasts. And that could shave a considerable chunk of the estimated $8 billion that leaf-peepers pump into the regional economy...
...wonder cure its proponents claim, it so far appears to be safe. Some minor side effects, such as hot, itchy ears, have been reported. As with any antidepressant, a few people who take it develop mania, an uncontrolled frenzy of emotion and activity. Who knows what else may turn up if millions of people start using it? Maybe that's one reason SAMe is still a prescription drug in Europe. So, if you do decide to try it, it's not a bad idea to let your doctor know so that he or she can watch for anything unusual...
...Cemetery and outside John's apartment in New York City, I was struck by the derisive note of the commentary: "Who are they to grieve? They didn't know him." Yes, we should weep, and we should grieve, for our country has lost its finest son; it is our turn to salute. JEAN MAXWELL Atlanta...