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...Nixon campaign manager and Attorney General John Mitchell to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein...
...espousal of a supply-driven national energy policy and his appointment of conservative officials to top posts overseeing public lands have made the pendulum swing back to the other extreme, toward one of concern about how far the development push will go. "They just don't get it," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Their ideological base is so out of synch with ordinary people on this." Even Congress is uneasy about that momentum. With an eye to the polls and the 2002 elections, some Republicans joined Democrats in late June to vote down...
...Even the players are weird. Take Carl Everett, for instance. Everett, the former Mets outfielder who is the most prominent non-Hispanic black guy in the whole city of Boston, does not believe in dinosaurs. “The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs,” Everett famously told Sports Illustrated. “You can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex.” Everett was run out of New York in 1997 when he was charged with...
...NOTES: Ripken is one of only seven players to amass more than 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. The six others are Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Stan Musial, Dave Winfield & Carl Yastrzemski... Pete Rose owns the 11th- and 15-longest playing streaks in major league history (745; 678). The sum of those streaks still falls 1,209 games short of Ripken's mark... Ripken holds the major league record for home runs hit by a shortstop, with 345... 5,045 players were put on the disabled list from the time Ripken started his consecutive games streak...
...Democrat Carl Levin plans to pick apart W.'s missile-defense scheme from his new perch atop the Armed Services Committee, and to probe oil-company price gouging as head of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Patrick Leahy will slow down the schedule for considering judicial nominees to give Democrats more time to stockpile ammunition against conservative ones. Next week Daschle plans to bring up a patient's bill of rights measure that Kennedy has sponsored with Senators John Edwards and John McCain. Bush has threatened to veto it. Says Joe Biden, who heads the Foreign Relations Committee: "Bush...