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...symptom of lobbying run amuck is the proliferation of earmarks--spending placed in legislation, often without public review, for specific projects. "Beating up on lobbyists is easy to do, but we have to put our own house in order, and at the top of that list is earmark reform," says Republican Congressman Jeff Flake of Arizona. The most famous recent earmark was last fall's so-called Bridge to Nowhere--a provision that Representatives from Alaska inserted into a bill to spend close to $223 million to make it easier to reach a virtually uninhabited area of the state...
...week when the WTO talks themselves were stultifying even to trade ministers, the South Koreans may have provided the only surprise-they displayed relatively good behavior. Many ended their protest march on the conference's opening day not by running amuck but by taking a dip: wearing orange life jackets, over 100 Koreans leapt into Victoria Harbour, floating just a few hundred meters from the convention center where the talks were being held. It was a peculiar act of protest, but it was brave-the polluted waters of the harbor haven't been safe for swimming in years. "I cannot...
...that time of year again, when the most prolific shoppers--and woeful savers--on earth, Americans, run amuck in stores as if they were Kris Kringle with his elves on strike. It matters little that shoppers are already neck-deep in debt or that even those doing well have cause for stress, given that sky-high home-heating bills are just a month away, inflation and interest rates are rising and the housing market is slowing--all of which is eating into most budgets or soon will...
...Fans vs. Miss Manners The Fan Man parachutes onto the ropes during the Bowe-Holyfield brawl. University of Wisconsin partisans run amuck after their football team beats Michigan. New Orleans quarterback Wade Wilson collapses in pain with a knee injury, and the hometown boors cheer. Now behave, people, or we'll send Vince Coleman after...
...treatment, are unable to live decently. In comparing a physician convicted of drug trafficking to a cocaine or heroin dealer, DEA administrator Karen Tandy sends a threatening message to physicians and patients alike. Unless rhetoric is followed up with a thoughtful and commonsense policy, it will be government run amuck. You can be sure that I and thousands of others will do what is necessary to get access to drugs needed by our families...