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...someone else's bill passed. That's one reason Lott's extensive public statements and voting record on civil rights matters did not get much national attention until last week. It also helps explain why he was so slow to address the controversy over his comments on Thurmond. Except for brief flare-ups when his name was associated with fringe groups, the people who really mattered to him--his Mississippi supporters and Republicans in the Senate and White House--had seldom complained about such comments in the past. "The most important thing to understand about Trent Lott is that...
...Except, all of a sudden, things got interesting...
...lured Paul O'Neill from the executive suite at Alcoa and persuaded him to become George W. Bush's Treasury Secretary. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan loved the choice, the Vice President boasted in private two Decembers ago--and surely what made Greenspan happy would tickle the markets too. Except it didn't work out that way. A respected executive whose blunt talk the President at first found refreshing, O'Neill never emerged as a persuasive advocate for the Administration's economic policy--in part because he never accepted its central belief that the cure for any ill is more...
...final uncontested bill, sponsored by all the presidential and vice-presidential candidates in the council’s elections last week except for David M. Darst ’04, thanked the council’s Election Commission for its work coordinating the elections...
...didn’t know anything about UNH except that they were 14-1-1, so that was a little bit unnerving,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone...