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...anonymous letter written on State Department stationery spilled out of fax machines in five Republican Senate offices on Feb. 15. Stamped URGENT, it suggested that nothing short of an enemy plot was brewing inside the Executive Branch. Clinton holdovers, it warned, were "seeking to box the Bush Administration into a corner where it will have to choose between a bad deal and international embarrassment. Please do not let this happen." The Senators took the threat seriously. Nebraska's Chuck Hagel fired a memo to Deputy Secretary of State-designate Richard Armitage: "We need to get control of this...
...control they did. Last week, when four of those Senators received another letter on the subject, it was signed by George W. Bush, who assured them that he had quashed the plot. But the plan he killed--a proposal to slow the pace of global warming by limiting the amount of carbon dioxide that electrical utilities release into the atmosphere--was no rogue operation by an underground cell of Al Gore sympathizers. It was a campaign promise made last fall by Bush, one designed to persuade environmentally conscious swing voters that he was greener than Gore...
...women of the Charlie's Angels movie, which has earned $125 million since its November debut, might not seem to have kinship with Crouching Tiger's stately stunners. This colorful jape propels Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu through its empty-calorie plot with the force of a hurricane blow-dryer. The stars giggle, wear swank togs, toss their coiffures in luxurious slo-mo. Diaz shakes her booty a lot. And skeptics may laugh their booty off when told that the Angels are icons of empowerment...
...Recounting the plot of "Mr. D" would be uninstructive. Like real dreams, the narrative develops out of a sequence of symbolic events. In broadest terms, Mr. D. finds himself pursuing and pursued by a hussar-like character named Scallywaggs. On the journey D encounters Su, a man with "Asian features" who collects stories, and Sarah, the woman to whom D literally gives his heart...
Eugene M. Pfeifer, who owns a three-acre riverfront plot located in the center of the proposed presidential library, has challenged the city's attempt to make him give up his land. He has claimed that the city government cannot use its eminent domain powers to seize his property if it will be used to build a residence for Clinton...