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After he found it one night last week in Goffstown, N.H., a student stood up and accused him of hypocrisy: Why does he take truckloads of money from the communications industry he regulates as chairman of the Commerce Committee? People in the room couldn't hear the question until McCain said, disarmingly, "You'd better use the microphone--I think you've gotten to the hot part." The guy asked if McCain would pledge to accept no money from industries he oversees. "Absolutely not," said McCain. "I'm sorry." He had to take the money, he said, because...
...math.) It turns out Bush was an underachiever. He didn't do well in class not because he couldn't, but because he couldn't be bothered. The fear that continues to fester about Bush--as we read about his periodic foreign-policy gaffes and then hear him blithely assert that what he doesn't know he can learn from his advisers--is that at 53 he has the same cavalier attitude toward knowledge that he had at 21: he could learn what he needs to know, but he doesn't seem to think it's worth his time...
...pressing them to get to the heart of the matter. From the minute someone starts talking about an issue, Bush is itching for a recommendation. As Albert Hawkins, his state budget director, says, "If you're going on too long, he tells you so." Says Bush: "I like to hear someone enunciate a position, pro or con. Because if someone cannot explain a position, that generally means they don't understand the issue well enough to be part of the decision-making process...
...note to Howard Stern after Stern's painful separation from his wife of 21 years. Stern and Kathie Lee, of course, aren't particularly good friends. Actually, Howard has made it quite clear that he thinks Kathie Lee is the devil. The note read, "I was very sorry to hear the news that you and your wife have separated. God loves you and he cares about you and each member of your family. He's there when you need him." Here's hoping that Fart-Man makes an unwelcome appearance Regis and Kathie Lee in the near future...
...harm that World War II caused? Everybody already knows the war is bad, so what does this play do that's new? Part of the reason for the ambiguity, at least in the first part, is that the play is from the little boy's point of view. We hear his thoughts over a loudspeaker. And we know just as little about what's going on as he does. The danger is that the audience might forever be lost in his nave, childlike world and only realize that he is sad because his parents left him--missing the larger point...