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...didn't have a vote." DeLay and conservatives resented being forced to accede to what they felt was slapdash legislation--and being made to look miserly for it. Bush didn't back down, saying he wanted a bill passed quickly. The flinty Congressman would not let the matter drop and moments later brought it up with some G.O.P. leaders present. "We didn't appreciate it," he said of the White House pressure. "Well," Bush said with a smile, "we were trying to nudge you along...
...message "This network is available in all 50 states!"--left viewers unsure what TNN was, except those who thought it was still about Nashville and were surprised to find it running Blind Date instead of Tim McGraw videos. Once a perennial cable top 10, the network saw its ratings drop to 14th place...
...rising malpractice-insurance costs force a growing number of physicians to change states, drop certain procedures and even quit medicine, many patients like Valdez are finding themselves abandoned. In Las Vegas, where a number of obstetricians have stopped accepting patients, forcing some women to drive to Utah for prenatal care, a pregnant radio host took to the airwaves and begged her listeners to help her find an obgyn. (Her unorthodox method worked.) In Pennsylvania, a particularly unlucky senior has lost his neurosurgeon and orthopedic surgeon to other states, and now his rheumatologist and urologist are threatening to move as well...
...them. Most any data-storage device is, to his mind, a ridiculous piece of machinery. Ask him why, and he will pound his desk with frustration as he tells you how obscenely sensitive it is: a hunk of metal whirring around at 10,000 r.p.m. that dies if you drop it from 5 ft. The more we store on them--these days, everything from tax records to baby pictures--the more painful their death...
...Meanwhile, a nationwide alliance of mullahs has launched a direct attack on Musharraf, demanding that he no longer serve as both the country's President and army chief. They say they are willing to drop that demand?if Musharraf agrees to apply Shari'a law throughout the country, a step the President, a religious moderate, is loathe to make. If he wants to save his fa?ade of civilian government and retain international support, he may have to swallow hard and make peace with two exiled former Prime Ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, whose parties together are strong enough...