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...advisers, they contend they won't be following the example of Dick Morris--cashing in on their access and taking credit for every successful White House move. Leopoulos, for one, won't even be at this week's Inauguration. The $150 cost of an Inaugural Ball ticket is too steep, he says, and he would have to miss his 12-year-old daughter's tryout for the Arkansas select soccer team. How's that for common sense from the heartland...
...open field in cold and snowy conditions. Authorities do not believe any aboard survived the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate the incident. Eyewitnesses say the plane dipped while in flight, then began spiraling before hitting the ground at a very steep angle. The plane, a Embraer 120 model turboprop, appeared to be thoroughly destroyed. The flight originated in Cincinnati and was reportedly turned away from Detroit Metro, which was experiencing heavy snows, and trying to get to Toledo to land...
Even for a duke of cyberspace like Bill Gates, the price seemed steep. In 1994 he paid the estate of oil baron Armand Hammer $30.8 million for one of Leonardo da Vinci's lesser notebooks. Compared with the Renaissance master's other surviving manuscripts, Codex Leicester (named for the English family that owned it for two centuries) is trifling, just 18 sheets of linen paper folded in half to produce 72 pages. It contains only modest samples of Leonardo's celebrated draftsmanship--no spectacular drawings of flying machines, no cutaways of the human anatomy or exploded views of geared gadgetry...
...welfare reform. "There's a lot of good information we have now because of the [welfare] waivers that have been granted [to the states] in the last several years," she said. "There has to be a transfer of knowledge across state boundaries. There are going to be some really steep learning curves." She went on contentedly for a while, until she was asked about the first term and the hard lessons learned. "I'm sure there are lots and lots of lessons, things we did that could have been done better," Hillary said, but she didn't come up with...
...dare to navigate the perilously steep stairs, you'll find the trip more than worth the effort. Singh says he's looking forward to meeting...