Word: saturday
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...left by Christine Whitman (who is heading for the the EPA) and on the right by John Ashcroft, who Bush named last week to be his attorney general. Bush had been thinking about Ashcroft for nearly a month, but a senior Bush official told TIME.com on Saturday that the more moderate the Cabinet became last week, the more sense it made to mollify conservatives in one fell swoop. Democrats will concentrate their fire on the Missouri Republican, whose almost-pure brand of conservatism guarantees a sea change at the Department of Justice. But barring a surprise, even Democrats expect Ashcroft...
Colin Powell, who was Dad's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was named on Saturday to the post of Secretary of State, and Bush has all but said Condoleezza Rice will be his National Security Adviser. Rice worked on the NSC staff of Bush's father for two years and has been at W.'s side for six months. But Bush was finding it harder to pick someone to run the Pentagon, perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush...
...Person of the Year on the very day that the Electoral College voted could help certify the end of the postelection conflict. He invited us to Austin, Texas, for a photo session, a two-hour interview the next day, and then a visit to his isolated ranch on the Saturday when the Supreme Court happened to stay the Florida recount...
...Saturday morning in June 1998, homicide Inspector Jose Afonso Coelho of the Lisbon police is notified that the nude body of a teenage girl has been found on a nearby beach. Along with Carlos Pinto, his new partner, Coelho begins to investigate and quickly uncovers some interesting complications. The victim, Catarina Sousa Oliveira, was the daughter of a powerful, well-connected local attorney and his second wife and had already, despite her tender years, demonstrated a precocious fondness for sex and drugs. In fact, she had recently seduced her mother's lover and arranged the tryst so that the mother...
...that allows both sides to claim their demands have been satisfied. The deal, whose details are still being fiercely contested, would require the Palestinians to drop claims for the right of refugees to return to Israel. The negotiators are due to report back to President Clinton on Saturday, to assess the possibility of closing the gaps...