As the breeze whipped the snow in little maelstroms of white, I stopped halfway and tilted my face to the cloudless, sapphire-blue sky.

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Bush is not considering changing plans for troops in Iraq as a result of Republican defections, White House spokesman Tony Snow said Monday.

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"I think it might even be worse than Sandy, " said Chip Gomes, a construction worker who took shelter from the snow in a 7-Eleven in White Plains as he waited for a bus.

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Sky customers will now have access to hit films such as Snow White and the Huntsman, The Bourne Legacy and Ted, in addition to a broad range of high-caliber programming on our bouquet of branded channels.

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The pay-off is the reported local spend for features such as Prometheus and Snow White and The Huntsman, which were shot on Skye, and many other productions filmed nearby in Glencoe and the Cairngorms on the mainland, including the Harry Potter series, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall and Cloud Atlas.

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Even as many Republicans attack the administration for choices such as ending White House tours or canceling early snow removal from Yellowstone National Park, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in particular fear that giving Obama greater flexibility would erode Congress' control over the federal purse, which is enshrined in the Constitution and zealously guarded.

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