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...Congressman's desire to protect his home turf often saves weapons that ought to fade away. Neither the Air Force nor the Army asked for money for the C-12 personnel-carrying aircraft, and the Navy requested only twelve, presumably because all the services knew the politics involved would guarantee them the funds anyway. The transport plane is made by Beech Aircraft, which is owned by Raytheon Co., which happens to be in Massachusetts, the home state of House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He reportedly told Aspin "not to come back" from the conference without funds for the aircraft...
...with polls showing Labour still gaining, Conservative leader Michael Howard redoubled his emotional appeal to "ordinary, decent folk, who know that things are wrong but are being intimidated into silence" by Blair's crowd of trendy metropolitans. Nick Sparrow, head of the pollster ICM, pointed out this was awkward turf for the Tories, "banging on about second-order issues," while Labour, though tarnished, "focuses on the economy, schools and hospitals people care most about." Dull and worthy, it would seem, still have their place...
Compounding the defensive challenge for Brown and other Harvard regulars this season has been transitioning to grass from artificial turf, where the team opened its season-opening series at Minneapolis’ Metrodome on March 11. Brown has handled the challenge...
...He’s been able to transition from the turf to the fields really well,” Mann said. “He’ll be out there the rest of the season...
John Negroponte, the President's pick for the first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), hasn't even been confirmed for the job yet, but he is already facing serious turf battles in the U.S. intelligence community. One sign of trouble on the horizon: the Defense Department's intelligence chief, Stephen Cambone, is having aides draft a previously undisclosed "charter" for his office that would consolidate his power as the DNI's main point of contact for the Pentagon's myriad intelligence agencies, which consume some 80% of the estimated $40 billion U.S. intelligence budget. The detailed charter appears to extend...