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He deflects a dart of a query on roots of economic disaster
IF YOU HAD a few minutes with Republican presidential candidate John McCain, what would you ask him?
I confronted this dilemma when his campaign offered me half an hour with him yesterday on his campaign bus, "The Straight Talk Express," along with four other print reporters - "just the four of you and him having a conversation," campaign spokesman Paul Lindsay said.
- Jill Porter: Whatever they are, Francisville 4 have same rights we all do
SOME YEARS back, I lived next door to a crackhead.
He owned the house adjoining mine in Germantown.
After he ripped off his wife's cash, sold his kids' toys and drove the family out, there were periods when he was gone for months. The deteriorating house was occupied by a series of squatters, some of whom brought cockroaches and pit bulls.
- TONIGHT Mayor Nutter will put on a nice suit and welcome guests to a $1,000-a-head cocktail party at the Franklin Institute to raise money for his campaign fund, which reported $1.1 million on hand in January. Does he really need to start raising money for his re-election now?
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