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...been an enraging surprise for liberals who thought that, apart from all his moderate mood music four years ago, Bush would have no choice after a virtual tie election and with an evenly divided Congress but to govern from the center. In every campaign promise he has kept, they find one he has broken. "I don't think that we have had a President in recent memory who did such an about-face after getting elected," Senator Hillary Clinton tells TIME. All that compassionate-conservative talk, many Democrats decided, was just for show. He promised to restore trust...
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...expected to rule in the next few weeks on Fischer's appeal against deportation. If the decision goes against Fischer, Bosnitch says his group will launch more legal challenges. They are also trying to get Fischer valid travel documents from a third country, which might prove to be a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card. While requests to a variety of countries for asylum have so far come to nothing, Bosnitch says a German passport remains a possibility: "Because Bobby's father was a German citizen, Bobby is a German citizen. But since Bobby has never asserted that citizenship...
...luck was not totally unexpected. Floridians have weathered repeated deadly hurricanes, such as Andrew, which in 1992 became the costliest U.S. disaster prior to 9/11. But those lessons were ephemeral. People have continued to move into Florida's dense metropolises, perched on the water's edge. And virtual cities of trailer parks have sprung up alongside vulnerable inlets. Some call it hurricane amnesia, and a cure is not in sight...
When I decided to become a photographer, he became my virtual teacher. I didn't have enough money to buy books, so I would go to bookstores every day, stand in the aisles and study the works of great photographers. I quickly learned that Cartier-Bresson was the foundation of contemporary photography. I looked at his pictures every day, sometimes for hours at a time. They never got old. There was always something I hadn't seen before, a hidden meaning right there on the surface, a new formal insight, a sudden smile, a subtle barb aimed at hypocrisy...