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...selection of archconservative former Senator John Ashcroft for Attorney General will help the medicine go down. Business developers got Gale Norton, the Interior nominee known for her eagerness to open wilderness areas to industry. Corporate America, meet Mr. Paul O'Neill, lately of Alcoa. Moderate suburbanites got Christine Todd Whitman, the moderate, suburban New Jersey Governor who will run the Environmental Protection Agency. If Labor nominee Linda Chavez, Reagan's civil rights commissioner and battle-hardened veteran of the culture wars, continues her attacks on affirmative action once in office, Bush can take cover behind the fact that his Cabinet...
...Bush's nominations have given environmentalists too many targets: aside from Norton, there's former Michigan Senator Spence Abraham, a champion of the gas-guzzling SUV. Bush nominated him to head the Energy Department even though Abraham co-sponsored three bills to abolish it. Then there is Christine Todd Whitman at EPA, who as New Jersey Governor cut the state's environmental budget 30% and favored voluntary compliance with pollution standards instead of corporate fines. Whitman has also had environmental successes in New Jersey, cleaning up the water and preserving open lands from development...
...Whitman's lucky escape
...appointees Ron Brown and Federico Pena and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer all faced similar accusations over the past 10 years - but not one of their eventual appointments was derailed by what was variously portrayed as delinquency or plain old carelessness. Meanwhile, Bush's EPA chief-designate, Christine Todd Whitman, narrowly escaped hired-help disaster during her 1993 gubernatorial run when it turned out her opponent had also hired an illegal worker, thus balancing the scales of wrongdoing...
Grayson Witcher scored a huge victory in the 7th place match against the Ephs, outlasting 3 time All-American Zafrir Levy in 5 games. Thomas Storch and Ziggy Whitman were solid all weekend, combining for a perfect 8-0 individual record at the No. 4 and 5 spots, respectively...