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...election may relieve some of the pressure for a shakeup of the Bush economic team, which advisers have been considering for months. But while the name plates may not shift quickly, more of them may change than before Bush's good night. Previously, advisers had worried that too many alterations in the economic team would look like an admission that the president's economic plans had failed, as Democrats maintain. But the margin of his party's victory, Bush may be less concerned by such perceptions...
...chose him: This quiet Republican Senator jumped ship from the GOP this week to become an independent, causing perhaps the most significant mid-term shakeup in the history of Capitol Hill...
...other side of the Capitol, a quiet revolution was under way in the House of Representatives, where GOP leaders were giving up their committee chairs. The shakeup marks a stark departure from years of tradition - for as long as the modern House has existed, representatives in the controlling party have bided their time, inching up the leadership ladder toward their ultimate reward: A committee chairmanship...
With all eight Ivy teams in league action for the first time since opening weekend, there was bound to be a major shakeup in the league standings...
...gets one third of its energy from nuclear power can't afford to be lax, but Japan's industry has been plagued by accidents, plant shutdowns, leaks and repeated attempts to cover things up," says TIME Tokyo bureau chief Tim Larimer. "Although the earlier incidents provoked a major shakeup in the administration of Japan's nuclear regulatory agencies, they still seem to escape adequate scrutiny." Obuchi has plenty of incentive to be perceived as getting tough ? he wants a public whose confidence in nuclear safety has been considerably diminished to accept the building of 20 more nuclear reactors over...