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...Washington will do what Washington too often does in a time of crisis: point fingers. Florida Senator Bill Nelson--famous for having sweet-talked his way onto the same shuttle Columbia when he was a Congressman, landing just 10 days before the Challenger disaster sobered the space community to the risks of such joyrides--has been warning colleagues that budget cutbacks threatened to compromise spacecraft safety. "I have been perhaps the sharpest critic in Congress about the slowing down of safety upgrades," he says...
...slate of seven IOP resident fellows, announced Tuesday, also includes the chief political correspondent for The New York Times; a former Texas congressman; the former head of a prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights group; and top advisers to past Clinton and Bush campaigns. Resident fellows must lead weekly study groups open to any Harvard undergraduate. By contrast, IOP fall visiting fellows—not yet announced—only spend part of the semester at Harvard, giving periodic talks related to their interests...
Joining Ginsberg, Graham, Jacques, and Nagourney as IOP fellows this fall are Martin Frost, a former Texas congressman who lost to Howard Dean earlier this year in a bid to chair the Democratic National Committee; Joseph Gaylord, a former counselor to Newt Gingrich (and Ginsberg’s first political boss, Ginsberg said); and Lisa Davis, a former advisor to Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign...
...JONES, former Congressman and actor who played Cooter on the Dukes of Hazzard, objecting on his website to the reported profanity and sexual content in the movie remake of the TV series...
...avoid an Argentine-style financial crisis. But the cornerstone of that package?an expanded value-added tax?has been suspended by the Supreme Court. Increasingly, Arroyo is no longer seen as an asset but a liability. "We were on the verge of a major boom," says Joey Salceda, a Congressman who helped devise the economic plan. "That's gone...