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Friday, at a memorial service in front of the Minnesota state capitol, a preacher told the crowd, “We cannot park the green bus.” If it were a practical choice, Wellstone probably would have taken the bus up to northern Minnesota for the funeral he was scheduled to attend. He was known to hate and fear flying in those small planes...
...Senator Paul Wellstone, who died Friday when his campaign plane crashed, had a lot of courage to match all that enthusiasm. Most politicians and reporters stress how liberal he was. But even if he had been Jesse Helms' and Strom Thurmond's ideological buddy on Capitol Hill, Wellstone would have had something special that set him apart from most of his colleagues. Wellstone was unapologetic about his convictions. He did not change his views based on polls or focus groups. Throughout the '90s, as the Senate shifted to Republican control, and Democrats moved further to the center, Wellstone passionately held...
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...finally broke when Ira Glass, host of the public radio show “This American Life,” requested that the band perform with him on a touring version of the show. Their fan base grew rapidly, and they were eventually signed by Capitol Records. The band recorded an entire disc’s worth of material, but then scrapped it in favor of new recordings that now comprise the OK Go album. When asked about this decision, Kulash is quick to defend himself...
Gary Winnick, the flamboyant chairman of Global Crossing, is expected to be the next embattled executive to take the Fifth Amendment on Capitol Hill, when he appears this week before Representative Billy Tauzin's House Energy and Commerce Committee. "We want to know what Mr. Winnick knew about the shaky state of company finances when he cashed in," says Investigations Subcommittee chairman James Greenwood. But what it doesn't get from Winnick, the committee may learn from documents that suggest Winnick was well aware of Global's financial troubles even as the company--stop us if you've heard this...