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...someone in Pforzheimer has a cold, everyone knows--they've asked for cold medicine on the list. When one student's mother sent him a barrel of peanuts, he invited the whole House to partake...
...prices, rather than interest rate hikes, may do Alan Greenspan's dirty work on the economy, and that could be bad news for Al Gore. The price of crude oil jumped to $34.13 a barrel Wednesday, an almost 10 percent increase in the space of a week that has Wall Street jittery and President Clinton warning producer nations against continuing to choke the supply. The price has more than trebled over the past year, after oil-producing nations inside and outside the OPEC cartel agreed to cut back production in order to drive prices back up. "Even though...
...rarity in parched Arizona, they had an omen of victory. Early Tuesday afternoon, McCain gathered with his staff in the sprawling kitchen of his Phoenix home, where he had just had a haircut. His four younger children ran in and out of the room. "Jack's a pork-barrel spender," joked 11-year-old Jimmy about his 13-year-old brother, using one of his father's favorite insults. Aides chowed on grilled cheese sandwiches while McCain cycled through a round of radio interviews on the phone. Political strategist Murphy got a call from a network-television source and while...
...Rollback in barrel production implemented last winter by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
...basic argument goes like this: McCain's campaign-finance rebellion--and the force of the Republican reaction against him--was a seismic shock that knocked him free from G.O.P. orthodoxy. And so he attacks Republican pork-barrel projects, questions the need for increased military spending, worries about the gap between rich and poor, and supports new health-care entitlements (insurance for children, a prescription-drug benefit) and even, in the vaguest of terms, universal health care. McCain has also been butting heads with Bush on the question of tax cuts--arguing that the truly conservative position is to keep...