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Privately, Bush aides admit that their man had a few bad days but say it's better to stumble now than in October. And they insist there are no lessons to be learned. "In a couple of weeks," predicts spokesman Ari Fleischer, "you'll be saying, 'Bush is back.'" Either that, or the campaign will look back and wonder what warning signs it missed in August...
TechNet and CapNet insist that they complement each other. AOL, for instance, belongs to both camps because of its merger with Netscape. Still, the two Nets are likely to clash occasionally. CapNetters such as MCI WorldCom, Network Solutions, Teligent and Proxicom are heavily involved in the Internet and telecommunications, while TechNet is a little more software oriented. CapNet is more focused on local issues, like relieving traffic snarls near Dulles International Airport. "We push for policies that would help the region accommodate growth," says Vic Fazio, a former Democratic California Congressman and lobbyist who co-chairs CapNet...
...with Long Beach police, the principals on both sides of the fray did their best to gaze into a glorious electoral future with a straight face. And the next chapter in this two-roads-diverged saga is the $12.6 million lifeblood in federal matching funds, which both Reform parties insist is rightfully theirs...
...years ago of the rape and stabbing murder of 24-year-old Kelly Donovan, an Air Force linguist in San Antonio. Cruz has confessed, and, his advocates argue, shows anguished remorse. His is not, however, the kind of remorse one might expect from an adult, Cruz's lawyers insist. Cruz's comprehension of his crime and the implications of his actions are childlike, similar to the reaction of a five-year-old who knocks over a glass of milk and has no idea he's done something wrong until his parents scold him and reduce him to tears...
Cruz's lawyers hope to establish that their client's mental limitations were not adequately addressed during his trial; prosecutors insist that state-sponsored IQ tests, which placed Cruz well above the 70-point IQ mark, show Cruz to have the capacity to distinguish right from wrong...