Tidbits & Outrages.

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Too Late

"We are not a bunch of crazy, wild-eyed deregulators. But we want to look at the costs as well as the benefits. And we don't want to do anything stupid."

~ Cameron Findlay, Deputy Secretary of Labor, on the Bush administration.

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"It takes a while to tighten your saddle and get your sea legs ..."

~ Colin Powell, early adoptee of the Bush administration's revised rules of locution.

Springtime for Radisson

Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" retreat at Berchtesgaden is being converted into a 140-room, four-star resort.

Wrong number on speed dial?

Jeb Bush's staff made at least 95 phone calls to the Bush campaign during the Florida recount, despite the governor's recusal from the recount. Jeb Bush claimed he had "no clue what these calls were about."

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"Mr. Sulzberger? There's a Jerry Schwartz on line one ..."

CORRECTION OF THE MONTH: "An article on Friday about the indictment of a Manhattan Boy Scout leader, Jerrold Schwartz, on charges that he molested a troop member misstated the location of...