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...seems to have evolved out of discussions no more formal than the rolling press conferences on his Straight Talk Express. He likes to admit what he doesn't know--a risky kind of candor for a candidate who wants to be taken seriously--and he's sometimes ready to scrap a policy on the spot. When Jonathan Chait of the New Republic questioned his commitment to the dispossessed--pointing out that McCain's tax-cut plan does nothing for low-income people--McCain said, "Maybe I'm not paying attention to the poorest of America. Maybe my priorities...
This early Christmas present to the scrap-metal dealers--who contributed more than $300,000 to political candidates and committees during the 1990s--made them very happy. Others in the recycling chain were not so happy. All of a sudden, they were potentially responsible for millions of dollars in damages the junkmen might otherwise have...
Instead Section 6001 was inserted in the appropriations bill by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate majority leader, to take the nation's scrap-metal dealers off the hook for millions of dollars in potential Superfund liabilities at toxic-waste sites. In doing so, Lott had the support of colleagues in both parties...
...least skills who gets the job with the most exposure. That explains why he was nervous enough to catch Customs' attention as he came off the ferry at Port Angeles, Wash. It also explains why he was careless enough to leave a paper trail. Ressam's pockets produced a scrap of paper scribbled with the name "Ghani." That took the FBI to their next suspect, Abdel Ghani Meskini, an Algerian expatriate living in Brooklyn, N.Y. A snitch told the FBI that Meskini had said Ressam's instructions were to "take the explosive-laden vehicle to a parking lot and walk...
While the veneer of civility remains intact among the Republican pool, a few scratches are showing, as George Bush and John McCain scrap over an increasingly slim margin and attack each other's tax plans. "McCain will say Bush's plan favors the wealthy, and Bush will accuse McCain of not being a real Republican, in light of his so-called 'Democratic' tax platform," says Dickerson. And while it's unclear whether anyone will have the chutzpah to attack McCain's campaign finance reform stance, the Arizona senator may be weakened by Wednesday's reports that he pressured...