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...poor people. In Los Angeles, the President's first appearance was at a conference sponsored by his Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This was supposed to be one of Bush's signature programs--a happy commingling of religion and compassion--but it's been lost in the welter of war, tax cuts and cultural pandering to the religious right. The first director of the office, John DiIulio, resigned in frustration. But DiIulio always believed the President was sincere in his commitment to faith-based antipoverty programs and, as Bush spoke last week--informally, skimming his text...
...which is the object of this meeting. "You gentlemen have come to the right place," the president tells us. "We launch new products for some of the biggest brands in America--Libby's, Heinz, Del Monte, Campbell's, Kraft--so we can give you an exponential trajectory on the welter of details that have to be accomplished to launch your salad dressing. It's essential to know in advance how the public will react to your product...
...sexy Forest Witches, or the powerful Kettledrummer, with one stick-like arm raised high, the other down, as if beating the slow, ceremonial dirge of a funeral march. In the big Rich Harbor only a few identifiable objects - steamboats, an ace of spades - can be identified amid a welter of enigmatic markings. Meanwhile Klee also expanded his experiments with an astonishing variety of materials, achieving exceptional nuances of texture, translucence and sheen. In addition to oil and watercolor, he worked with chalk, charcoal, pastels, colored pencils, wax color, tempera, varnishes, gypsum, poster paints and colored paste. He used them...
...overly romantic travel guide and at others like a nationalistic mainland textbook. On one page, China's borders include Tibet and Xinjiang (which were by no means part of China throughout all 5,000 years); two pages later, without respecifying her geographic boundaries, she writes that "out of the welter of dialects only one written language had emerged." What about Tibetan, Uighur, Mongolian? Chang is particularly hard on the Manchus, the northern-dwelling nomads who conquered China in 1644 and established the Qing dynasty. Chang correctly notes that the Manchus required their Han subjects to wear their hair in queues...
...government" he had with the Labor Party, but Labor's leaders say they're unwilling to re-enter a partnership that last week brought them to their worst showing in any Israeli election: Labor got only half as many seats as Likud, and came close to falling into the welter of tiny parties that jostle for ministerial jobs in coalition talks. Most analysts bet Sharon will have to go for a right-wing coalition with a series of nationalist and religious parties. That will keep Netanyahu in the Foreign Ministry that he's occupied since returning to the government after...