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...help rally the country and show that business can get moving again. And last week it was Rove who pushed hardest for Bush to attend a $1 million Republican Governors Association fund raiser in Washington, arguing that elections and politics were an important part of getting back to normal. Rove almost won that fight too, but the there's-no-going-back crowd, led by Cheney, prevailed and the Vice President attended the dinner in Bush's place...
...fallen to Cheney to merge the messages, to declare that there is "a new normal" now--one that makes room for courage and fear, joy and loss; one in which we attend birthday parties and funerals on the same day. Unlike Bush, Cheney has been warning Americans that life is different now and is probably going to stay that way for the rest of our lives. The question, of course, is how different, and Bush will soon have to begin helping us chart the dimensions of the new normal. How he does it will be a measure...
...lives in the German town of Greifswald, claims that they "used to go to church more than to the mosque." Jarrah, says Salim, loved discos-"We didn't need veiled women and all that"-and sneaked shots of whiskey during a family wedding. He makes Jarrah sound like a normal guy, and normal guys aren't easy to catch...
...workers union members filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service, demanding the Morgan postal facility in midtown Manhattan be closed for thorough cleaning. Environmental tests revealed anthrax spores on four of the center?s sorting machines. While postal officials are insisting Manhattan mail delivery will continue on a normal schedule, as many as 30 percent of the central facility?s workers have been absent from work in recent days, a five-fold increase from usual rates. Postal workers in Florida have filed a similar suit, claiming authorities did not respond quickly enough to postal workers' risk of contracting anthrax...
...thing is that next year's federal budget is still not finished. President Bush's education bill remains stalled, and his proposals for Medicare prescription-drug benefits and federal funding for religious charities are basically dead. But legislators in the House and Senate are slowly returning to their normal duties...