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...Florida rather than back home. W. followed his father step for step. "He is always anxious to please his father," one of the President's oldest and closest counselors said a few years ago, "and he has done it by emulation. He went to Yale. He was a combat pilot. He went into the oil business in Midland. He ran for Congress. In his way, he tried to relive segments of his father's life...
...provide $185 million to combat father absenteeism and $10 million for a project showing fathers' importance --To establish parenting mentors --To save salmon in the Northwest without destroying dams --To help families avoid welfare with work-first services...
...economy, which has raised the number of millionaires and those who think they can become millionaires. There's also the federal budget surplus, which has fueled tax-cutting desires in both parties. But the biggest factor is a brilliant marketing campaign by Republican foes of the estate tax. To combat the plutocratic image of estate holders, they circulated heart-rending tales of small businesses and farms bankrupted by the estate tax. Most shrewdly, Republican pollsters realized that few voters get angry over taxes on estates because few of them have any estate to speak of. But everybody dies...
...have to have public education, political advocacy and humanitarian assistance" to combat AIDS, Rivers said...
...from the White House Wednesday, in the form of a program to offer $1 billion in loans to AIDS-stricken African countries to facilitate the import of drugs and medical infrastructure from the U.S. While the New York Times gushed that the program "greatly increases the money available to combat the disease in a region that has become its epicenter," the Wall Street Journal was less sentimental, characterizing the scheme as "a campaign to help American businesses sell about $1 billion in AIDS drugs, medical equipment and health services." The Journal also had the good sense...