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...sexuality to get what she wanted - Bette Midler once called her "the woman who pulled herself up by her bra straps." But while his sister wielded sex as a weapon, especially after dropping out of college to pursue stardom in New York, Ciccone's sexuality often posed him problems. After he came out to his father, a conservative Catholic, the elder Ciccone sent Christopher a letter offering to pay for a psychiatrist to "help you with this problem...
...five years of investigations took my agents all over the country and occasionally overseas, and filled our evidence rooms with crates of reworked scrap and other counterfeit parts. Yet the FAA would shrug off what it called "suspected unapproved parts" as a paperwork problem. Some manufacturers made parts without the right FAA permits; others sold certified parts that were overruns and didn't have FAA approval. Unapproved parts could be those that were not manufactured or repaired under authorized procedures. One of the largest aviation manufacturers in the world is Pratt & Whitney, maker of one of the most popular...
...wouldn't even use the term bogus parts. Administrator Hinson would tell Congress that "unapproved parts may fit somebody's definition of bogus parts, but we only deal in 'approved' and 'unapproved.'" Associate administrator Anthony Broderick would tell Air Transport World in 1994 that "there is no safety problem associated with undocumented parts...
...White House press corps is a temperamental group, and by the spring of 2006 its collective attitude towards the Administration of George W. Bush was, at best, one of hostility. The problem wasn't the Administration's policies - objectivity is still very much the goal - but the way those policies were expressed. Part of the problem had been Bush's two unsuccessful press secretaries: his first, Ari Fleischer, had proven capable but combative and condescending; his second, Scott McClellan, had been inadvertently caught up in misleading the press about the White House leak of the identity of a CIA officer...
...over the last month, with Obama maintaining a small, if slowly growing lead over McCain, which is far below the knock-out advantage that many had predicted in such a Democratic friendly cycle. Both campaigns long ago admitted that this campaign would come down to the economy, a growing problem for which neither candidate is offering many short-term fixes. Pew pollsters re-released data that showed that about twice as many Americans pick the economy as the most important issue (44 percent) than choose the Iraq war (24 percent). This is almost a complete inversion of the responses last...