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Even as Gingrich was dialing for votes, the letter came from Goss and Schiff, the G.O.P. members of the ethics subcommittee. For Republicans looking for a life preserver, it was just that. But the note, as well as press reports that the subcommittee had already decided on a reprimand for...
Whether she did that as effectively or as forcefully as the catastrophe demanded is the question that now haunts the Governor. Should Blanco have told Bush she needed 7,000 cots? 200 boats? The 82nd Airborne? "I didn't give him a checklist or anything," she acknowledged in an interview...
NASA's woes were further accentuated by a Soviet coup. Just as U.S. television cameras were showing the Navy recovery ship, the U.S.S. Preserver, bringing to Port Canaveral its dolorous cargo in a flag-draped container last week, Soviet television was beaming to the world images of a triumph: the...
Father of Invention In our Milestone on the passing of Andrew Toti [April 11], we mistakenly said the inflatable flotation vest (commonly known as the Mae West) was his invention. Peter Markus, who died in 1973, won the first patent for the inflatable life preserver in 1928.
The gut check for both Cahill and Kerry came in early December, when she made a quiet Sunday-afternoon visit to the Senator and his wife at their Louisburg Square town house in Boston and laid out the grim financial reality of their situation. "It was very clinical," she recalls...