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...District Court has to consider whether the city, which is hemmed in by a ring of strong suburban papers such as the San Jose Mercury-News, can in fact sustain two daily newspapers. If Hearst is forced to keep the paper, many expect the company to let it fold rather than pump in the resources necessary to keep it afloat. In fact, many question why Hearst has held on to the paper for so long. But then again, one has to remember it was the Examiner, once flagship of the Hearst Empire, that was the paper that put William Randolph...
...double bed) with a view out the window and a chair across the way. There was also a berth near the ceiling, accessible by ladder, to be pulled down later. However eccentric its facilities, the "room" offered more space and privacy than the "standard" compartment--with its fold-down sink and unenclosed toilet--that we had shared on the train from New York. Lesson No. 2: Trains are not hotels...
Perhaps it is not so much divergent stances on issues that divide them as conceptions of power. McCain feels that power should derive from principles, Bush from tradition and money. McCain wants to see disenfranchised voices brought back into the political fold, Bush wants to be elected. McCain wants to realign the Republican party along less provincial and more democratic lines, Bush wants to cut taxes. These differences, more than any one issue, have both energized liberals to support McCain and energized McCain to hate Bush. It will be interesting to see if McCain--like a defeated Reagan...
...Most Republican senators are miffed that they have to make nice," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, "but they recognize how important it is for the GOP to look unified right now." Even McCain's proven ability to attract a new breed of voter to the Republican fold may serve to isolate him, particularly among those senators prone to jealousy - or to holding grudges. "They've seen how successful McCain was on the road, and they know he is responsible for many voters' seeing the party in a whole new light," says Dickerson. The problem, of course, lies...
...easy to miss that the war was less about ideology than about power. McCain could claim that his assault last week on leaders of the religious establishment was just his latest rage against the machine, to tell Republicans that they cannot hope to draw people into the fold if they continue to be obsessed with soft money or partisan power or ideological purity. But when he went too far and called the mullahs evil, he allowed the Texans to whisper once more that McCain was simply not steady enough to carry the flag for his or any other party...