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...fact-paced trial of four New York City police officers accused of murdering Amadou Diallo is moving into its third week, and the lawyers representing the officers are scrambling to shore up their defense. "This trial is moving like a freight train," says TIME correspondent Jack White. That's not good news for the defendants, whose case was damaged Wednesday by a defense witness who suddenly turned hostile...
...state, Warren Tompkins, says McCain is "taking positions to the left in order to find a constituency, play a numbers game." He calls McCain's tax policy "more Clintonesque than Reaganesque." And of McCain's plan to use most of the surplus to reduce the national debt and shore up Social Security, he adds, "I don't believe our party, especially in South Carolina, is ready for a candidate whose plan is endorsed by Clinton-Gore." In fact, the TIME/CNN poll suggests that a majority of South Carolina Republicans--74%--agree with McCain and Clinton that the country would...
...live alone in a shingled cottage by the shore. Every morning I get up from my feather bed, putter across my shiny parquet floors and eat breakfast in my sun-filled kitchen as I wait for the chauffeur to swoosh me off to my job--as a bookie for the local crime ring...
...maverick style, McCain is betting Bush is wrong about his own party. In McCain's economic plan, the details of which were released only last week, he calls for a tax cut roughly half the size of Bush's, with the rest of the budget surplus used to shore up Social Security and Medicare and to pay down the nation's $5 trillion debt. That's because McCain believes that the rank-and-file of his party now care more about being fiscally conservative and protecting entitlement programs than they do about getting big tax cuts. And McCain thinks...
...stick in the spokes of his resurgent campaign in the Hawkeye State. "This is exactly what he didn't want," says TIME political correspondent Eric Pooley, reporting from Iowa. The news emerged just when Bradley was waging an eleventh-hour comeback, in which he unleashed Daniel Patrick Moynihan to shore up the state's elderly vote and regional favorite Bob Kerrey to mobilize the party establishment. "Right when he needs to get messages across," says Pooley, "his heart condition is grabbing all of the headlines...