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RUSSIA. Last week the spy spat generated some real heat. When the Administration announced the mass expulsion and Moscow responded in kind, it recalled all the old Soviet-era standoffs. Moscow hyperventilated that the expulsions were a "throwback to the cold war" resulting from "cowboy-style" tactics. But the Bush team says the move showed their man's quiet muscle. The message to Moscow: Dubya is going to tell it like it is, with no pussyfooting around when Russia misbehaves...
...wonder. Pull the undercarriage of the bus, and out rolls an electric barbecue and another television set, designed for the chef who can grill steaks and watch Survivor II. With a 165-gal. tank of freshwater and other tanks for waste, as well as a powerful generator for light, heat or air conditioning, a bus can camp for a week without needing outside power...
...issues, such collisions are inevitable. Last week, as the New York Times reported, Bush planned to ask the American Bar Association to drop its review of judicial nominees, long a sore spot for conservatives. But where business is concerned, Bush has often let Congress take the lead--and the heat. After banks, retailers and credit-card companies poured millions of dollars into both parties during the last election, the bill tightening the rules for consumer bankruptcy sailed through the Senate last week. And a week earlier, with an assurance that Bush would back them, House and Senate Republicans rolled back...
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...Bush still got his three days of bashing in the press from editorial writers and environmental groups for marching directly into the arms of Big Coal, but the heat obviously wasn't enough to drive the White House back toward the middle of the environmental road. Because this week it seemed determined to stretch that economic cover just as far as it will go - and it ain't just drilling in Alaska...