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...Only on Feb. 1 did Kerasiotes admit publicly that the cost of the project would increase to $12.2 billion. This prompted U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater to announce that federal funds for the Big Dig would be cut off unless the state came up with a viable plan for financing the project by March 15. As the federal government is paying about 70 percent of the Big Dig costs, such a freeze would be a catastrophic blow to the project...
...John McCain. In fact, the entire Bush strategy--early money, early inevitability, lots of leftover cash for spring--all that's way down the drain. So far, he's spent $60 million and picked up 57 delegates, compared to McCain's 95. Said a Bush wag: "You got to admit, this strategy of ours sure breaks new ground. Nobody's ever tried to do it this...
...those in the McCain camp, that's another opening, even if they don't always admit it. "I don't see any need for us to be raising these issues," said King last Thursday, during a phone interview with TIME. "It's already out there." He paused. "Can you hang on?" The NBC affiliate in New York was running a report about Bush and Farrakhan, and King wanted to watch. The report cut from Bush to Farrakhan--and then to King. "If [Bush] doesn't know who they are, that to me disqualifies him," King told the camera...
...According to a Human Rights Watch report released last week, the Colombian army is still fighting guerrillas with the help of some 5,000 paramilitary thugs "responsible for gross human-rights violations." Though the White House publicly insists its aid will fight drugs and not guerrillas, Clinton aides privately admit it will be impossible to separate the two in many future battles...
Privately, McCain insiders concede that Bush has already won strongly conservative communities such as Brea. They also admit that while McCain is a charmer in person, he's a bit of a stiff on television, and in an ad-campaign state like California, that's a problem...