Powell: No

The man who fares best in polls of Republican voters has emphatically ruled out a run for the White House in 2000. At a news conference in Iowa - home to the caucuses, one of the big early events in America's bizarre quadrennial presidential pageant - retired general Colin Powell said he just doesn't have the passion for a political life.

The man who fares best in polls of Republican voters has emphatically ruled out a run for the White House in 2000. At a news conference in Iowa - home to the caucuses, one of the big early events in America's bizarre quadrennial presidential pageant - retired general Colin Powell said he just doesn't have the passion for a political life.