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...Chuck Schumer wanted to know how big a tax cut was "too big." Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes went after Greenspan with the jailyard shiv of Senate committee warfare - press clippings - quoting departed fiscal hero Robert Rubin and Newsweek contrarian Allan Sloan both savaging the idea of tax cuts based on these surplus projections...
...started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where "nobody was thinking about the wireless Internet in a serious way," recalls Rossman, 43. "I'm fortunate to be a contrarian...
...Night to Bolster Bush," but the story is quick to make John McCain's rebellion-free speech the most important bolstering. But they also call him "subdued." WP ("Heartily Endorses") and USAT ("Salutes") both headline McCain. WSJ continues its two-steps-away convention coverage with a contrarian history piece about how the GOP loves its military night, but remember - this is the first ticket in forever without a veteran on it. Bush and Cheney, the deferment boys - that's not a nice ring...
...certainly something to be said for Mbeki's vigorous intellectual independence. He won't be told what to do by anyone. But even Mbeki's supporters fear that his stubbornness on AIDS may be increasing the risks to his countrymen. Pressure is growing for him to re-evaluate his contrarian stance on HIV and--at the very least--to allow AZT treatment for pregnant women. That demand in particular was endorsed last Friday by a man Mbeki can't easily refuse: Nelson Mandela...
...Allen Roses, a rapier-tongued contrarian then at Duke University, challenged the beta-amyloid orthodoxy. He announced that he and his colleagues had found a major Alzheimer's-susceptibility gene that affected the late-onset forms of the disease. It was the gene for APOE4, a common variant of the APOE lipoprotein, which is one of the many workhorses of the body's cholesterol-transport system. What, everyone wondered, could this lipoprotein, a known risk factor for heart disease, possibly have to do with Alzheimer's? Very quickly, many concluded that Roses could not be right...