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...release of Life with My Sister Madonna - the breathless tell-all from the Material Girl's brother, Christopher Ciccone, with writer Wendy Leigh - couldn't have been more fortuitously timed. As the book hits stores, the world's most famous Kabbalah practitioner is fending off rumors of a pending split from husband Guy Ritchie and of an alleged affair with New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, whom she reputedly "brainwashed," causing the dissolution of his marriage. So bright is Madonna's star that this jumble of reheated anecdotes warranted an initial print run of 350,000 copies...
...denouement of a personal crusade to make the agency more responsive to safety issues--and less responsive to the needs of the airlines. Stifled continually by the FAA's political prowess, Schiavo eventually decided that the best way to bring about reform at the agency was to resign and tell her story. In the following excerpts from her new book, Flying Blind, Flying Safe, she describes how her work at the Transportation Department left her "dismayed, disillusioned and afraid for the flying public...
...unapproved parts. It was a label the FAA would rely on to blur the issue, allowing officials to talk about the investigation without appearing to endorse it or offend the repair stations, parts makers or brokers. The FAA wouldn't even use the term bogus parts. Administrator Hinson would tell Congress that "unapproved parts may fit somebody's definition of bogus parts, but we only deal in 'approved' and 'unapproved.'" Associate administrator Anthony Broderick would tell Air Transport World in 1994 that "there is no safety problem associated with undocumented parts...
...tips of their tongues--"losses," they would explain patiently, from the small number of crashes and even smaller number of attacks on planes just did not justify vast airline investments in safety and security. After all, as the FAA's associate administrator for civil-aviation security, Cathal Flynn, would tell me, the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, cost $1 billion. Trying to prevent another Pan Am 103 would cost $5 billion over 10 years. Couldn't I understand? The numbers just didn...
...person on the line had just left the FAA building to call and tell me that one of the FAA associate administrators had gone into his office for a meeting to discuss the secret memo. He had the memo with him right now, the caller insisted...