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...According to the most recent analysis, an electrical short circuit caused the center-wing fuel tank on the Boeing 747 to explode. But beyond that general consensus, nobody knows exactly why. Except, of course, the rabble-rousers: Federal investigators, who've spent much of the last four years up to their elbows in this convoluted case, bristle at conspiracy theorists' continued accusations that the NTSB and FAA are covering up the true cause of the crash. Early speculation that terrorist action brought the plane down was quickly discounted, but several passengers' family members and a few enthusiastic intrigue-seekers have...
...Republicans lost. Lost on the party circuit, that is. It's a wonder, in fact, that anybody got any work done in Los Angeles this week during the Democratic convention. Eli Broad, who forked over $1 million personally to get the Democrats to town, said he had been invited to 340 parties - and counting. Variety, the chronicler of Hollywood's party-hearty ways, says there were over 40 events on Sunday alone. Chelsea Clinton, the Gore girls, the Kennedy men were everywhere, grabbing the spotlight next to mega-party throwers like Barbra Streisand and the ever-ubiquitous Melissa Etheridge...
...slot? - and ended deafeningly, waving his arms and raising his eyes and shouting "Stay out the Bushes!" But his not-so-long-ago terming of Bill, Al and Joe's DLC as "Democrats for the leisure class" hung over the speech, and as he hit the nights'-end pundit circuit Jackson made little effort to let the evening's rote unifiers cancel that old gripe...
...Democratic convention, the political talk show circuit is hopping. Speculation abounds: Can the Dems, handicapped now by the double whammy of a largely indifferent electorate and a press corps exhausted by the rigors of covering the GOP action in Philadelphia, manage to kindle some kind of excitement? Will voters tune in to meager network coverage? Can Joe Lieberman successfully pass some of his vaunted moral gravitas to his running mate? Will the Clintons leave town before they sap too much of the energy ostensibly meant for Gore...
...They're still complicated enough that we get depressed," Arkin admits with a laugh. But he has already had some success grouping reactions together by the kinds of jobs they do. And, sure enough, some of them bear a remarkable resemblance to the gates and switches of an electronic circuit...