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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (73483)	7/27/2006 7:03:09 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

diplomacy....engage...... cute sound bites..... So how do you buy off Iran and Syria? Like Jimmy Carter and Clinton did North Korea? Or kerry did North Vietnam?

To: American Spirit who wrote (73483)	7/27/2006 10:11:23 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

warwoundfaker as lt governor in big dig: The most expensive highway project in U.S. history, the Big Dig buried the old elevated Central Artery under Boston and linked Interstate 90 to the airport. It took more than a decade to complete because of delays and cost overruns and has been plagued by leaks, falling debris and problems blamed on faulty construction. In May, six current and former employees of a concrete supplier were charged with fraud for allegedly concealing that some concrete delivered to the Big Dig was not freshly mixed. The ceiling collapse in a connector tunnel that routes traffic toward the airport led to the closing of nearby tunnels while engineers investigate the cause and devise fixes. The focus of the inspections has been on epoxy-bolt fasteners that anchored the ceiling panels in some of the tunnels. More than 1,300 fasteners in the tunnels have failed ''pull tests'' in the past two weeks. State and federal prosecutors are now investigating whether criminal charges are warranted. Turnpike board member John Moscardelli said Thursday that he believes Amorello was wrongly blamed for construction problems that happened before he took over. ''I feel very, very badly for him. I know how hard he worked,'' Moscardelli said. he said Amorello told him he agonized over the decision to resign. ''He just felt that it was the right thing to do for the public, for the Turnpike Authority, and of course, for him and his family,'' Moscardelli said. ------ On the Net: Big Dig: massturnpike.com