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...surprise is Tommy Thompson for secretary of Health and Human Services. A staunch pro-lifer and welfare-reform pioneer, Thompson is a conservative star and one of the generation of Republican "pragmatist" governors that made it possible for Bush to run for president in the first place...
...Colorado's attorney general for eight years and is an Interior and Agriculture vet from earlier GOP administrations. That's she's from one of those red states out in the untamed west is no surprise; that she's not Slade Gorton, the departing senator from Microsoftland who has made more enemies among American Indians than Bruce Babbit ever dreamed of, should reduce the controversy factor considerably. Very Bush, who said she'll help him "find ways to develop our nation's resources in a balanced and environmentally friendly way." Translation: Arctic drilling...
...UNTIL 1965, SCHULZ PROVIDED unconventional commentary in the national margins. He set out consciously never to settle issues raised by the strip and never to bring in issues from outside. He never made overt political statements through "Peanuts." He remained apart from specific social and political causes, never joining the battle of ideas. Having established an idiom and a mode that commented on modern ills such as commercialization, real estate development, generational distrust, Schulz extended the area of doubt in modern life only insofar as he made it funny to doubt. But, as the '60s intensified, as the Vietnam...
...kept on drawing as he always had. He often said, "My main job is to draw funny comic strips for the newspapers." He didn't set himself up as a chaplain or philosopher or therapist to the millions. He made no statements about important issues. He sat on no commissions. He went straight on with his work, even though the world begged him to change from being a commentator for a minor constituency in the 1950s to a national observer who had a great deal to say to the world at large. He wanted to be no different than anyone...
...millions of ordinary Russians and the empowerment of a tiny oligarchy whose roots in many cases were in the underworld. Yeltsin generally raised no objections to Washington's foreign policy initiatives as long as Russia remained the recipient of billions of dollars of Western aid. But once corruption made aid impossible, Russia was essentially cut loose...