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Speaking before an audience of 60 at Austin Hall, Mikulski advocated a complete overhaul of the welfare system and outlined the proposal that Senate Democrats hope to advance this summer...
...enough for Harbury, 43, who has spent the past five years on a tumultuous personal odyssey. In 1990 she went to Guatemala to research human-rights violations. There she met Bamaca, whose nom de guerre was Everardo; the couple were married in a common-law ceremony in Austin, Texas, in September 1991. Soon after his March 1992 disappearance, she was told by Guatemalan military authorities that Bamaca had committed suicide rather than be captured and tortured by the army. But Harbury believed her husband was still alive and pressed for proof of his fate. In August 1993, authorities exhumed...
...Marion ("Sandy") Sanford, a respected and putatively neutral Austin lobbyist, says, "This is not the N.R.A,; this is spontaneous combustion"--fueled by the same dread that has stoked the success of death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson...
...damage assessment [on Ames] will be coming out in five to six months and I guarantee it will make you sick to your stomach," Hitz told an audience of 70 in Austin Hall. "This dog, sloppy spy though he was, earned his money...
...none too generous government checks. And they will punish any legislator who doesn't swear to keep hands off the system with the electoral equivalent of burning at the stake. This attitude certainly exists, and not only among older Americans of modest means. Leonard Schwartz, 52, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, earns a six-figure income and has built up a sizable nest egg for the retirement he hopes to start early. Even so, he's worried. "I'm going to be relying in part on those [Social Security] benefits. If they start cutting in 10 or 15 years, after...