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...NASCAR?s slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...
...Seat belt designer Joe Simpson, who resigned from Simpson Performance Products after Earnhardt?s crash, held his own press conference after NASCAR?s, blaming the driver?s crew for improperly installing the belt. Safety expert Raddin shrugged off that allegation, noting that the belt could not have been installed differently and still fit the seat...
...Government belt-tightening, of course, is what the Republicans have been trying to sell voters for years, but when Clinton had the surpluses rolling in and everybody from K Street to Wall Street to Main Street was feeling flush, it looked like cold, cruel ideology next to Bill?s lofty empathies. Not to mention that Republicans, in their own way, have been prone to spend as much as Democrats when its been their turn at the trough. Now that Americans are doing a little belt-tightening of their own, they might finally be ready to demand that Washington join them...
Fortunately, the blade broke off on the boy's belt buckle. Horrified by what he had almost done, Carson locked himself in the bathroom. "I started reading the Book of Proverbs," Carson recalls. "When I came out three hours later, I had a different view of the world...
Clinton envisions an ex-presidency like Jimmy Carter's, minus the tool belt. This week he will produce the first in a series of benefit concerts for AIDS in Africa with Kenny (Babyface) Edmonds, enough of a hip-hopper for teens to notice but not so much to remind people of Clinton's bad-boy genes. He is also helping earthquake victims in India (one trip and $10 million raised so far) and linking up small businesses in Harlem with the big ones in midtown. Of course he's cashing in like no other President has done before. This week...