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...them and their patrons on Capitol Hill. Even before the President gave his speech Thursday night, House Transportation Committee chairman Don Young served notice on Speaker Dennis Hastert that he had no intention of giving up his committee's jurisdiction over the Coast Guard and the TSA. And California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, who supports most of the Bush plan, insists his decision to include her district's Lawrence Livermore nuclear-weapons lab in the new department is a mistake and that the lab is better off as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration. (All the nuclear labs just underwent...
...after purveyors of Internet spam. With his knack for tapping into hot-button issues, the question now is not if but when he will run for Governor. "You in New York are so blessed to have an attorney general who just showed what it was like to be a Democrat," James Carville, Bill Clinton's old political guru, gushed in his keynote address to a party convention in New York City last month. "General Spitzer, I think they ought to nominate you as Democrat of the Year...
...Governor of Vermont has taken the most dramatic stance: Democrat Howard Dean said he would be willing to forgo $25 million in federal Title I funds in order to avoid the expense and annoyance of carrying out the new legislation. That's a position he's allowed to take under the law, which ties a state's Title I dollars to adoption of the bill's accountability standards. "Our school system here is a good deal better than most, and we got that way by holding schools accountable our way," says Dean, who is expected to run for President...
...studio, TV studio, record label, theme parks and theatres. In over fifty years in the business, Wasserman's clients included Bette Davis, James Stewart, John Garfield and Gregory Peck. In 1974 he gave an unknown director called Steven Spielberg a chance to direct his first film: Jaws. An inveterate Democrat, Wasserman raised millions for the Democratic Party's candidates dating from Kennedy to Clinton.(See Eulogy). DIED. RADWAN EL-KASHEF, 50, acclaimed Egyptian film director; in Cairo. El-Kashef's best known film, Date Wine, won a Silver Prize at the 1998 Carthage Film Festival and was widely appreciated...
...eight weeks, and there are no viable applicants lined up to replace her. Time is short: vetting a candidate can take months, and then the nominee must be approved by the Senate, which will recess on Aug. 2. The Bush Administration is so desperate, it even asked Garvey, a Democrat, to stay. But she has had enough. Garvey is the first FAA chief in history to serve a five-year term. Even worse for the country's air-safety system, the FAA still has not been able to fill the job of chief operating officer, created by Congress...