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...Michael Babbitt, HUDSON, OHIO...
...prisoner at Auschwitz, Dina Babbitt, 86, was ordered by Nazi physician Josef Mengele to create portraits of his patients. In exchange, her life and her mother's were spared. Babbit later inspired Holocaust survivors by fighting to reclaim the paintings...
...staffer or member of Capitol Hill's prime pork committee since 1963, a guy who earmarked a $3 million highway in the last transportation bill to relieve the notorious congestion between County Road 565 in Hoyt Lakes, Minn., and the intersection of Highways 21 and 70 in Babbitt. Meanwhile, states like Alabama, Kansas and Texas have been releasing lists of shovel-ready transportation projects that are dramatically skewed toward out-of-the-way sprawl roads. Missouri's list was all roads, none of them in St. Louis. Obama has vowed to reject earmarks, but if Congress simply passes cash...
...history would have damaged a total of less than 8,000 acres. And scientists say the pump's actual devastation would be more like 200,000 acres, which is why 541 of them signed a letter calling for a veto. The Clinton Administration dismissed what then Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called a "godawful, cockamamie" project in 2000, and even the top lobbyist for the Corps once described the pump and a second project in Missouri as "economic duds with huge environmental consequences...
Well, of course. But some of these sins are hardly worth a serious confession. As Bruce Babbitt, an engaging and now almost-forgotten Democratic candidate, pointed out half a generation ago, the U.S. is a big country - it takes time for all but the best-known politicians to make themselves familiar enough with folks to win their vote. And in politics, time means money - which you have to raise one way or another. The army of reporters who follow the campaign may have their moments of self-importance, but they act as a noisy Greek chorus on politics, ensuring (especially...