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...February 2, 1959, Holly and his tourmates were on the eleventh night of their Winter Dance Party tour through the snow-covered Midwest. It was a Monday - a school night - but 1,100 teenagers crammed into Clear Lake, Iowa's Surf Ballroom for two sold out shows. They wore blue jeans and saddle shoes and screamed for 17-year-old Richie Valens, whose single "Donna" was about to go gold. Between sets, Holly solicited people to join him on the charter airplane he'd hired to fly to the next show in Moorhead, Minnesota. The musicians had been traveling...
Although he never registered, Daschle, in fact, made millions of dollars after he left government doing stuff that looks, smells and tastes a lot like lobbying - work that led to the taxes flap that forced him to apologize to his former colleagues on Monday for what he called a "completely inadvertent" mistake. And while that failure to pay more than $128,000 in back taxes and interest has briefly marred his confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), it's the ethical gray area Daschle's advisory work represents that has called into question Obama's promise...
...Monday, Daschle's spokeswoman, Jenny Backus, told the Associated Press that his work on behalf of health-care clients did not constitute a conflict of interest for his job at HHS. "He welcomed every opportunity to make his case to the American public at large and the health-care industry in particular that America can't afford to ignore the health-care crisis any longer," Backus said. Under the Obama ethics rules, Daschle will be barred from dealing with "specific parties that is directly and substantially related to my former employer or former clients," unless he is granted a waiver...
After Tom Daschle met with his former colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee behind closed doors on late Monday, the Obama Administration's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services told close associates the session had gone well. Daschle said privately that it looked as though he would weather the controversy that had begun with revelations that he had failed to pay $128,000 in taxes, most of which arose from his use of a car and driver provided to him by a private-equity firm for which he had consulted...
...told by her clinic to remain at home, rather than risk the icy, treacherous drive into work). That's the same message that went out to Louisville's public school students; classes for the remainder of last week were called off by Wednesday morning. Schools were still closed Monday...