Word: bases
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...without giving the secret away. Bush wants us to discover whatever it is he's leading us to the way he did. "Wait till you see this," he breathes out. The seam we've been following winds us around an outcropping of rock, and suddenly we're at the base of a limestone cavity. It rises up 60 ft., the color of butter-pecan ice cream, shaped as if the scoop has just scored it. Down the middle falls a modest line of water. Somehow the splash can only now be heard as we stand next to its blue-green...
...making tentative feelers and offers so Bush is never turned down. "Cheney doesn't decide," explained an aide, "but he does tee up the choices." Giving Cheney the job of sifting through the names may turn out to be a nifty bit of Bush judo: if the party's base doesn't like the outcome, Bush may be figuring, they can take it up with the Veep, who is the most conservative guy on Bush's team, at the moment anyway. Bush has told intimates that each Cabinet post is a riddle in miniature: you never know, he says...
Then there?s Texas. Unlike the Massachusetts-Connecticut-Maine Ivy League preppiness of George Sr., Dubya grew up in the Texan oil town that his father chose as a profitable base in the ?50s and ?60s. Except for his sojourns at Yale and northeastern prep schools, the George W. taste is drawn from unapologetic Texan sensibilities. There?s a certain swagger. Think Connecticut meets ?Dallas? meets ?Dynasty? and you?ll have a clue what to expect...
...Bollings Air Force base in Washington must feel like an insulated bubble to the diplomats dispatched by both sides to search for a deal. Arch-hawk Ariel Sharon is somewhere between 11 and 18 percent ahead of prime minister Ehud Barak in the polls, which casts a very real shadow over the talks in Washington. After all, the very basis of Sharon's campaign is rejection of Barak's peacemaking efforts as naïve and dangerous, leaving the Palestinian negotiators with the realization that the chances of their Israeli counterparts' being able to deliver on any undertakings are slim...
...important state elections in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state, which is considered a key indicator in national politics. Right now his party may lose its grip on the state, which is where Ayodhya is located. And some believe that he may be trying to energize the BJP's base by reviving the issue. But it's a dangerous game, not least because his coalition allies in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu depend heavily on Muslim support, which Vajpayee's statement will alienate...