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...United States Supreme Court," she said. "You don't have your personal accountant replace Alan Greenspan. It's embarrassing to hear people describe this as if this is the best woman Bush could get." Veteran conservative activist Paul Weyrich saw insult in the assumption that Bush's followers wouldn't dare question his choice. "They are so used to conservatives falling in line, rolling over and playing dead--that's what they expected," he said...
...spiritual credentials that her surrogates pointed in trying to reassure conservative Christians that she could be trusted. But that was not enough for activists like Janet LaRue, chief counsel for Concerned Women for America. "Jimmy Carter claims to be an Evangelical," she says, "and I wouldn't want to have him on the Supreme Court...
...would like to say we have passed the saturation point on procedurals. But I wouldn't bet my pocket change on it. America is addicted to Amber Alerts and Laci Peterson--type cases, and every cable marathon of lost-child and missing-white-woman coverage is free advertising for Close to Home. This TV season has been notable for ever more gruesome cop shows (Wanted, Killer Instinct) with sensationalistic stories about brutalized women and children. Close to Home, whose early episodes involve a kidnapped young woman and doe-eyed kids on the witness stand, is a softer, more accessible...
...with Broderick beside him, you get a more grounded, more confident Lane. Broderick calms Lane down, helps him laugh at himself a little. "There is just a certain comfort level with him that's unusual," Lane says. "One wouldn't let the other one, you know, fall or look silly. We're protective of each other." It takes some work to get the terminally modest Broderick to cop to his contribution. "There's some truth in that," he shrugs. "If he gets upset at rehearsal, I tend to sort of try to be the reasonable...
...give on Sept. 12 but postponed because of Katrina. To the dismay of aides--some White House wordsmiths, including Michael Gerson, had been working on the remarks since July--the news coverage dwelled on two sentences about 10 plots Bush said the U.S. and its partners had foiled. "I wouldn't have even had that mentioned in the speech if I had known that it would detract from the bigger picture," one aide said. It was a reminder to the President's men that when it comes to Iraq, the spotlight does not always shine where they...