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...Cheney would be its anchor. When healthy, he sends enormously reassuring signals to Republicans, the nation and overseas. He is known from Keokuk to Kathmandu. That is not yet true of the man poised to be his boss, and it would take some growth in Washington for Bush to make up the deficit. The first step will be for Bush to put his hand on the Bible in January and finally take office. Now it's up to Cheney to help get him there...
...heard Republican strategists like Newt Gingrich argue that if they could just get 15% of the black vote, they would be in power for a millennium," says Jackson, who at 35 is showing signs of being as wily as his father. "So I'm expecting Bush to make an unparalleled effort to reach...
...late. Haiti, perfectly situated between Colombia and Miami, has become the Yankee-proof drug-trafficking nexus the Colombian cartels have long dreamed of, a place whose police corruption and judicial void make U.S. interdiction efforts all but futile. "There is no institutional [structure] there for us to work with," says U.S. Customs Service commissioner Raymond Kelly. "Everything is broken...
...Internet kiosks in 1,200 K Marts across America. CEO Mark Goldstein is blithely turning away job applicants--unheard of in employee-hungry Silicon Valley--and even considering buying a failing dotcom or two for Christmas. "There's some great stuff out there," he muses. "We can make them profitable, take them under our wing...
Those who want to make it to Round 2 had better hope Santa is good to them. Even before a single retail site burst online, America had too many retail stores. By 2000, it also had too many e-tail stores. Result: shuttered sites, struggling shops and shredded profits across the sector. Poor performance by such companies as the Gap, Nordstrom and J.C. Penney added to the dotcom carnage in the stock market. And new worries that consumer spending is slowing, presaging a recession, have made this Christmas the most critical in years...