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...Interior secretary, essentially the nation's park steward and the person who'll have a lot to say about where the derricks go, it's Gale Norton, who served as Colorado's attorney general for eight years and is an Interior and Agriculture vet from earlier GOP administrations. That's she's from one of those red states out in the untamed west is no surprise; that she's not Slade Gorton, the departing senator from Microsoftland who has made more enemies among American Indians than Bruce Babbit ever dreamed of, should reduce the controversy factor considerably. Very Bush...
...Sharon will hammer Barak on the breakdown of the peace process, accusing him of dangerous naïveté and of being an amateurish negotiator. Any new peace agreement that Barak manages to cobble together before President Clinton leaves the White House will be pooh-poohed by the hawkish former general, who'll counsel caution and insist on slowing things down...
...move that was welcomed by Israelis across partisan lines. And they'll charge that the methods that have earned Sharon the nickname "The Bulldozer" are unlikely to bring peace. But Sharon's team will hammer Barak on the breakdown of the peace process, accusing him of dangerous naïveté and of being an amateurish negotiator. Any new peace agreement that Barak manages to cobble together before President Clinton leaves the White House will be poo-pooed by Sharon, who'll counsel caution and insist on slowing things down...
...television interview as George W. Bush's running mate last July, Dick Cheney had to endure a prime-time grilling. Larry King wanted to know if voters should worry about his history of heart attacks, and gave his conservative voting record in Congress a thorough going-over. A disabled vet called in to make a crack about his lack of military service. Watching from the Texas Governor's mansion, Bush wasn't fazed. He turned to an aide and said, "Mark my words. Dick Cheney is the type of man you want around when a crisis develops...
...Gore camp's legal interpretation of the ruling - still in the appeals process at the Florida Supreme Court - antitrust vet David Boies told CNN, "We look at it like the judge telling the secretary of state what the right thing to do is, and [saying] 'We assume you're going to do the right thing...