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...meteorologist might call Clinton's first month out of office a perfect storm: a freak convergence of fast-moving, late-season weather patterns, a lethal collision of the profound and the trivial. The thunderhead of accusations confirms every fair and unfair thing his enemies have ever said about him--and puts him once again in the sights of a federal prosecutor, this time U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White of New York. Not only are there calls to haul him before Congress, but also they are coming from fellow Democrats who defended him through every past scandal. This time...
...accounts, Hanssen played the role of superconservative patriot at the FBI - criticizing others for being both soft-headed and soft on defense, for being un-American, for being namby-pamby fair-weather citizens. He waved the flag and chastised others for not doing so. He famously didn't suffer fools - but in the end proved to be one himself...
...they set the bar low for Bush. He's a master at keeping expectations low, then exceeding them. As one senior Senate GOP aide told me, "We are going to be aggressively underestimating ourselves throughout the entire process. That way we husband the momentum of the President and weather some of these ups and downs...
...flying these days--delayed flights--is not covered by law but instead by Department of Transportation regulations, which offer only guidelines for what a carrier must do. That boils down to rebooking you on another one of its flights or endorsing your ticket over to another carrier. But if weather is the cause of the problem, the airline can just label it an act of God and make you sit and wait for the delayed plane to take off, no matter how long that may be. "Airplane flights are complex events," says Terry Trippler, president of onetravel.com a travel website...
...travel www.bts.gov/ntda/oai that includes comprehensive lists of on-time performance--broken down by airline, airport and even particular flight. Online travel site Expedia.com also provides on-time stats for individual flights. Finally, make use of the Web to see how the Federal Aviation Administration is reacting to the weather. Seemingly irrelevant thunderstorms in Cleveland may delay your L.A.-to-New York flight because the FAA sometimes orders that flights be held on the runway if delays are building up in the crowded Northeast airspace. You can see what the FAA is looking at by going to its command center...