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...California Democrat Barbara Boxer has renewed her crusade to force those hearings. "The apparent abuse of public trust that seems to have taken place against many women is outrageous enough," she said last week. "The fact that it may include a child who was 15 when she started interning for Senator Packwood adds a whole new dimension to this matter." Boxer claims that at least two Senators have told her they are reconsidering their votes against her proposal for hearings. All Boxer needs is one more vote. She picked up an unlikely ally in conservative G.O.P. presidential contender Pat Buchanan...
...BARBARA BOXER Senator loses battle to air Bob Packwood's laundry in public...
...nearly party-line split, the Senate voted 52 to 48 to back the decision of the Senate Ethics Committee not to hold public hearings in the sexual and official misconduct case of Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood. Democrat Barbara Boxer, who had pushed for open hearings, called the decision "a miscarriage of justice." At week's end the committee announced that two more complaints of sexual misconduct had surfaced against Packwood and that it would investigate the new charges...
What, if anything, does this have to do with people? Perhaps a good deal. For humans have an ob gene that is virtually identical to the mouse gene, and it is possible that at least some folks have trouble keeping off pounds because of a mutation in this gene. Barbara Cady, for one, welcomes the notion that she and others become fat not because they lack willpower or moral character but because they have a biochemical abnormality. "I'm not lazy or unintelligent," she says. "I do as many of the right things as slimmer people. But something's going...
...that is the best news Barbara Cady could hope for. "I don't expect that this is going to be a panacea and that we'll all live happily ever after on hot-fudge sundaes," she says. "I don't think anyone who is overweight expects that. All we want is some help with a frustrating condition." After years of guilty eating and self-recrimination, it looks as though help for Cady, and for more than 50 million other seriously overweight Americans, may finally...