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...Bush is in a bind--caught between his principles and moneymen on one side and the prospect of summertime blackouts, spiraling prices and mutinous legislators on the other. He needs a way out, and may have found one. This week a little-known agency called the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission meets in a special session, its first with two new Bush appointees in place. For the past year, FERC has ignored pleas for sweeping electricity price controls in California and other Western states. Last fall, at a congressional subcommittee hearing in San Diego, chairman Curtis Hebert suggested that consumers should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Bush Seen The Light? | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...Bush, the beauty of having the nominally independent FERC send an EMS team to Granny's house is that it allows him to keep his distance and take credit at the same time--to escape the bind without seeming to try. At a frosty meeting with California lawmakers last week, Cheney repeated his opposition to price controls even as he suggested help from FERC could be on the way. The White House believes in the free market, but it will crow this week that FERC acted because Bush had called on it to be vigilant. "He has not been looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Bush Seen The Light? | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...itching for some old- fashioned deal-making back home, where he's already scored triumphs on education and taxes. But then again, he may want to linger in the departure lounge. Waiting for him is one of the most frustrating and gridlock-producing pieces of legislation to bind up Washington in recent years, which Democrats will force Bush to take up this week: the patients' bill of rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle over the Patients' Bill of Rights | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...whether we were the admissions office’s big mistake. It’s only later that we realize the better question is whether Harvard was our mistake. Commencement, perhaps, should be the time when we can best answer that question. But at the senior events meant to bind us forever to each other and to our alma mater, I see more than a handful of people I’ve never met, who spent their time here doing things I’ve never tried. In the end, I can only say that there is no single Harvard...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, | Title: A Hundred Different Harvards | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...That's right. This administration is the grandchild of Reagan's principle that government isn't the solution, it's the problem. Still, President Bush is in a bind, because he can no longer say the science is inconclusive. He can say that drastic actions to curb global warming could hurt the economy. It's certainly going to take a deft hand to steer the economy through the issue of climate change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Educating W: Global Warming Report Creates a Presidential Headache | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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