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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2002

"With her scripted, photo-op advocacy of Bush environmental policies -- and a tough coal lobbyist running day-to-day operations backstage at her department -- Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton has gained a nickname, "the Stepford Secretary."

Strangely, though, Norton has been keeping a low profile in this part of the West, where Interior has vast land holdings.

It's doubly curious in that the president she serves made a big deal in 2000 of promising to get away from top-down decision making by distant Washington, D.C., officials. . ."

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In the Northwest: Norton's voice missing in vital land-use debate (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 12/8)