Word: pro
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Evan Chesler, "he couldn't help the Justice Department, and he couldn't represent the Vice President." Recruited for the Microsoft case by Justice antitrust chief Joel Klein after experts kept mentioning him to Klein, Boies charged the government only about $40 an hour. He handled the Gore case pro bono, after being recommended to the Vice President by a mutual friend, former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger...
...Ridge, the pro-choice, white, male Pennsylvania governor, is not. ("They apparently believe that because of one issue, I am not entitled to hold any post," Ridge said after his reported scratching for Defense. Hint, hint. Some are blaming Ridge's military voting record during his time in Congress, to which Ridge had this to say: "Just because it went boom and cost a lot of money doesn't mean I voted...
...Bible-thumping crowd will let Bush have Whitman - she's pro-business, New Jersey isn't nearly as polluted as it used to be, and baby-killing isn't in the job description. And besides, Health and Human Services looks to be in safe hands of Tommy Thompson...
...Thompson is the original conservative-pragmatist hero, a long-running Wisconsin governor who dazzles on welfare reform and won't budge on his pro-life position. This is the guy who started the fashion that allowed a bipartisan-minded GOP governor to dodge the stench of Tom DeLay, and Bush owes him. Even liberals can't help but like him a little bit, and the religious right knows the abortion issue won't get any worse for them with him in charge. At Thompson's request, the announcement will be made after the holidays, but it looks like a lock...
...finds a spot for Ridge (white male pro-choice liberal Republicans still eat at a different table) the Bush administration will be a pretty wide variety of professionals, all more intent on doing their respective jobs than messing around with Roe v. Wade and the like. As for diversity of color: If blacks are willing to look at Colin Powell and Condi Rice as viable political alternatives to Jesse Jackson (and if Bush eventually tips his hat to the Florida election problems), Bush may yet make friends there too. Though it'll be hard with Clarence Thomas sitting...