SPINNING RACE NEWSWEEK MSNBC.com By Howard Fineman and Tamara Lipper January 27, 2003 Jan. 27 issue He speechified to the right. He briefed to the middle. And he sought cover by trying to bring in Condi Rice. The color of racial politics No one in Washington can be as ominously sympathetic as Dick Cheney. He was that way last week, when he placed a call to Theodore Olson, solicitor general. President George W. Bush was preparing to take a politically explosive step, filing friend of the court briefs opposing the University of Michigan’s use of racial preferences in admissions. IT...