d be played by Gene Hackman or Robert Duvall.) The Bushies now recognize this, which accounts for the histrionic level of the counterattack. Sen. Bill Frist frothed about Clarke's "appalling act of profiteering, of trading on insider access to highly classified information," overlooking the inconvenient

reasury in Iraq — also will have to oppose raising the mini- mum wage. The credit for devising this diabolical trap goes to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R:fenn., who Ls grooming himself to run for the presidency and wants to deliver on the long-held GOP promise to cut the estate tax. The latest p