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...there is evidence that McCain is able to build bipartisan coalitions on occasion. He has successfully pushed for passage of the lobbying-gift ban, the line-item veto and the repeal of the catastrophic- health-care surtax, an unfair tax on seniors. As Commerce Committee chairman, McCain has shown the ability to navigate difficult issues like Y2K liability and whether to tax goods sold over the Internet, trimming his opinions to bang out a consensus. On the ill-fated campaign-finance reform, he has shaved away so many key elements to pick up support that some zealous supporters think...
After he found it one night last week in Goffstown, N.H., a student stood up and accused him of hypocrisy: Why does he take truckloads of money from the communications industry he regulates as chairman of the Commerce Committee? People in the room couldn't hear the question until McCain said, disarmingly, "You'd better use the microphone--I think you've gotten to the hot part." The guy asked if McCain would pledge to accept no money from industries he oversees. "Absolutely not," said McCain. "I'm sorry." He had to take the money, he said, because...
...National Transportation Safety Board is determined to proceed with caution this time, dampening the kind of speculation that flourished after TWA Flight 800 went down. Chairman Jim Hall, who was overshadowed by the FBI in that investigation, has appeared at nearly every press conference, emphasizing the importance of waiting for the facts--and the analysis of the black boxes...
There will probably be no clear verdict for months on what caused the demise of EgyptAir 990. That uncomfortable reality left many seeking explanations that sometimes bordered on the absurd. EgyptAir chairman Mohammed Fahim Rayan seemed ready to subscribe to a "new Bermuda Triangle theory"--namely that there is a curse on aircraft traveling up the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a graveyard that now contains the remains not only of John F. Kennedy Jr. but also of some of the passengers and crew aboard TWA Flight 800. No less than Mubarak himself seemed taken with the theory, urging...
...autopilot disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft was designed for. The flight data recovered indicates only that until then it had been an "uneventful" flight, according to NTSB chairman Jim Hall. More than anything else, the data from the first black box only emphasizes the need to recover the second one - the voice-data recorder - from the ocean floor...