Word: pressing
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McCain's trip, however, was a reminder of the U.S. media's endless fascination with his personal story. It's testimony, too, to his style of giving total access to journalists and the unprecedented favorable press he receives in turn. Remarkably, NBC covered McCain's expenses and those of his wife and staff; more than half a dozen other news organizations tagged along on their own dime...
...sign a war-crimes confession, his voice is tinged with the nostalgia others feel for their bright college years. "My cell was over there," he says. "That was the interrogation room. That's where the guards ate." As he speaks, Vietnamese pedestrians walk by and give him and his press entourage quizzical looks. Young boys try to sell him postcards. Though this is the week Vietnam celebrates the 25th anniversary of its victory, in a country where 53% of the population is under 25, the "American War" is a fading memory...
...stifle e-commerce. The issue poses a dilemma for small businesses: though reflexively antitax, many believe dotcoms are reaping an unfair price advantage from the tax-free Web. Both Gore and Bush favor extending the moratorium but stop there. How tough is this issue? A blue-ribbon panel at press time voted 10-8 not to tax the Internet. Their recommendation has been sent to Congress for review. Whether the massacre on NASDAQ in mid-April will ameliorate concern about this issue on Capitol Hill remains to be seen. But experts such as Christopher Wysocki, president of the Small Business...
...catch Blokes sending out press releases about their tuxes either. The Bloke is not given to grooming. Almost every story one reads about Crowe, or most any Australian actor, with the exception of Cate Blanchett, mentions a five-o'clock shadow...
...most party elephants' memory. Now it's Big Tent time, with the first of several planned grip-and-grin summits between the anointed and the heretic going down Tuesday in Pittsburgh. How do these two make it convincing? "They'll start by heaping praise on one another for the press, and will genially agree to disagree on whatever they have to," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney. "McCain will take every opportunity to call Bush's proposals 'reform,' starting with the partial privatization of Social Security, and will make it clear that he thinks Bush would make a superior president...