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Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was investigated over savings-and-loan abuses as a member of the Keating Five, says the pressure is even greater for a career military man like Boorda. "For some of us who served in the military, the thing we prize more than anything else is our honor and our reputation. People shouldn't be interested in destroying a reputation built up over all those years of dedicated and loyal service because of one mistake...
...Other Hero. Would Dole really tap someone who backed Phil Gramm in the early primaries, was tangentially involved in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal and led the fight to open diplomatic relations with Vietnam? Not most people with that kind of resume. But Arizona Senator John McCain, 59, spent 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese pow camp and would give the G.O.P. a kind of Double-Hero ticket, compounding strength with strength much as Bill Clinton did with Al Gore. Dole insiders view McCain as potentially the last man standing, the one to whom Dole would turn...
...cover reproduce a painting that isn't in the show? And why have 22 other choice items gone missing, while the main original sponsors, Mobil and Citibank, pulled out under mainland Chinese pressure as the long process of negotiation and selection was nearing its end? Politics, alas. The loan of these works of art has become a large hot potato in Taipei. And negotiating it proved a diplomatic nightmare for the Met, a four-year walk on eggshells...
...side there are the Taiwanese officials and others who view the loan to America as a politically essential gesture of cultural goodwill, especially now that mainland China is rattling its missiles and threatening once more to retake what Beijing regards as a runaway province. (Probably the Taipei museum would never have lent the material if the Taiwan government hadn't wanted to stick a finger up Beijing's nostril.) However, Taiwanese cultural nationalists have denounced the loan as a cynical game with irreplaceable national symbols whose meaning cannot in any case be appreciated by the round-eyed barbarians who will...
...from Berlin's Museum of Early and Pre-History, "the Pushkin Museum will be exhibiting the Schliemann gold without the participation of its owner." German curators have even broached the idea of lending the lesser Schliemann artifacts they still possess to the Pushkin, presumably in exchange for a return loan. But so far there has been no response...