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Even though nobody was mentioning him by name, only Mitch Daniels could have come up with the extra $4.3 billion the White House desperately needed this week. With Democrats smelling blood in the water in the form of a Congressional Budget Office report that the federal government was billions in the red and would have to borrow money from the Social Security surplus - the "lock box" - to break even this year, finding some extra cash was a political necessity...
...trillion tax cut an affordable idea, and since Daniels left his family at home in Indianapolis and moved into a one-bedroom Washington apartment whose walls remain bare, he?s been flashing some pretty mean steel. He stared down Tom Daschle?s Senate over $2 billion in extra farm aid. He cut the $40 billion Donald Rumsfeld wanted for the Pentagon in half. And he even sent his own cost-appraisal team to the wreckage of Tropical Storm Allison to kill a Federal Emergency Management Agency request for more disaster relief - for the state of Texas...
...loyal Reaganites, of course, a $1.3 trillion government diet pill was a soft sell. The tax cut was the surplus, and Washington was well rid of all that tempting extra cash. But to keep doomsaying Democrats from overrunning the place in 2002, Bush needs to prove to moderate skeptics that a Republican could cut taxes, build missile defense, boost education and balance a budget that began the year in a $125 billion surplus. But that money has quickly vanished. The tax cut took $78 billion in tax receipts and the idling economy another $40 billion, and Bush and the Democrats...
...great shape! And still making money! Buy a collage of memorabilia from The Jack La Lanne Show and for an extra $19.95 you'll get a video of Jack signing...
...widely available. A makeshift shopping bazaar on the top floor of a guesthouse in central Nairobi, for instance, has three stands selling hundreds of tubes of creams for between $1.30 and $2.50, most of them imported from Europe. There's IKB Skin Litener Cream, which boasts that it is "extra strength" and can be found in "London, Lagos, Paris and New York." There's Princess, Kiss, Jaribu (Swahili for try) and one brand which, oddly, has a photo of a white woman...