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...heavy rain were followed by the fury of Cyclone Eline. With it, land near the Limposo River was swamped; by early March at least 200 Mozambicans had died, a million were homeless and 10,000 remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October, Hulda Stern, 93, who lived on her own with her cat Pinky, refused to leave the house...
...Rumsfeld, 68, had the stature - he ran the Defense Department for Gerald Ford a quarter-century ago, and he's served four Republican administrations going back to Nixon. And he's got the pedigree. He dealt with low military morale in the wake of Vietnam, has held posts up and down the military and economic policy chains, and sees eye to eye with Bush on a missile defense. He even signed a letter in November criticizing Vice President Al Gore for agreeing in 1995 to Russia's sale of military equipment to Iran...
...That made him a prime target for the draft, and the Navy sent him to Vietnam as a medical corpsman--an experience that taught him indelible lessons about the fragility of human life and the colossal ineptitude of big bureaucracies. Says Venter: "If you suffered fools, you died. I dealt with thousands of people dying because of stupid government policies...
...great time to be a president who needed 35 days and 350 lawyers to win the election - but not a bad time to be a Republican. "We are going to play the hand we are dealt," Bush said Wednesday after naming ALCOA chief, old government hand (and longtime Greenspan buddy) Paul O'Neill to be his treasury secretary/tax-cut salesman in the coming storm...
...commission] dealt well with the innumerable reports of 'violations' from certain vindictive candidates who cared more about their own political ambitions than the students of this University," Averell said...