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...telling the truth slowly,' but I don?t think it?s done Bush any good, dragging it out like this." It?s the lesson every politician swears by ? full, early disclosure is the only smart play anymore ? until it happens to them. Bush?s Pandora?s box is mostly open, and he?s caught in the worst of worlds. He?s essentially admitted to it ? "Over 20 years ago, I did some things... I made some mistakes and I learned from those," Bush said Thursday ? and now he has to hope, as Branegan says, that "the public has a statute...
...factor." Vrooman claimed to have counted 13 white scientists at Los Alamos who made the same visits to China as Lee and talked to the same Chinese scientists. None were part of the investigation. But TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon reminds that none of them had left the door open to one of Los Alamos? most important barns. "He took the top-secret legacy codes and left them vulnerable," she says. "The FBI can?t prove that he delivered them to the Chinese ? Vrooman is right about that. But at the very least, he still committed an egregious offense...
Maples and his two vanloads of kids were hardly alone. Since the April 20 massacre, sightseers and sympathizers have streamed to the Denver suburb of Littleton, turning Columbine into a tourist attraction. The attention will only increase this week as the school prepares to open on Monday for the fall semester. Last week the press was finally allowed to tour the interior, repaired for $1.2 million. Says principal Frank DeAngelis: "The kids wanted a promise that they would be able to return. Now we are ready to take back the school...
...theory, tax incentives have two advantages over traditional government programs: (a) they're cheaper, because each dollar of lost tax revenue produces multiple dollars of the desired activity; and (b) they're smarter, because they tap into the creativity of the private sector. Both premises, though, are open to question...
...aims to boost your mental agility with a series of fun, silly games. Begin by answering a few odd questions: Could a trout be mayor? Would you read a book called, 10 Steps to Health, Wealth and Happiness? If you answered no to both, you may not be very open to new ideas, scolds the CD-ROM's sarcastic, British-accented narrator. To fix that, he takes you through a series of playful exercises to make you more experimental, proactive, empowered...You get the idea. In one exercise, you're asked how a cucumber might bring world peace. Ridiculous? Well...