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...serious flaw in one of its mirrors hobbles the orbiting Hubble telescope until 1993, at least, while the shuttle fleet is grounded by the second hydrogen leak in a month...
Never a fan of unattributed quotes in damaging stories, the White House staff chief has lately begun leak-hunting expeditions to identify unnamed sources in articles that make Bush look good. The vigilance is not working well: aides privately report that Sununu often fingers the wrong person...
...Attorney General felt compelled to take a lie-detector test in connection with an internal-leak investigation that implicated top aides. The probe left ! many loyalists questioning his leadership...
Economically speaking, money spent on arms is largely wasted, siphoned off from the precious pool of capital like a big leak. (In the old days, swords could at least be beaten into plowshares. Try beating a tank into a tractor.) And though the annual difference between what we and the Japanese have spent on defense -- a gap of 4 percentage points -- seems small, small numbers compound. An economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference...
Cozying up with sources is par for the gossip course, and Smith has her own techniques. "My effort is to turn everybody I know into a legman for me," she says. Reporters at newspapers, magazines and the three networks, she claims, often leak snippets to her. Agents of all kinds drop nuggets, as do friends, parties and openings. Public relations people are "mostly so inept that you should just forget it totally." Though, in truth, Liz has been known to run their press releases verbatim, as well as to promote shamelessly her favorite restaurants, charities and plays...