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...employees of both sinking ships, federal and congressional investigators have their pick of potential squealers. Despite - or because of - the political largesse of both companies (Andersen's own campaign checkbook graced 94 of 100 U.S. Senators), the political heat will be turned up high, and Justice's own little bedfellow problem (Andersen is helping them reorganize the FBI) shouldn't prevent them from collecting plenty of arrests in the name of George W. Bush's integrity. For the wrongdoers at these two companies, the jig does appear...
Illness has always been an important bedfellow to reflection and consideration of new directions. Some works of art would be unimaginable without it—what kind of output could we expect from a vigorous, healthy Proust? Pellegrino University Professor Robert Nozick’s new book Invariances is an example of the type of influence illness can have on thought. The book attempts to incorporate twentieth century scientific advances (such as quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of relativity) into philosphical questions that have puzzled humanity since the time of Socrates. While this is not an entirely...
...Besides, the courts have been kind to Bush when he's needed them, and the lawyers - led by a strange-bedfellow coalition of the ACLU, the conservative Southeast Legal Foundation, and whomever McConnell hires - are lining up to take a whack at the constitutionality of whatever Bush signs...
...Third, there's the courts. Severable or not, the lawyers - led by a bedfellow coalition of the ACLU, the conservative Southeast Legal Foundation, and whomever McConnell hires - are lining up to take a whack at the constitutionality of whatever Bush signs into law. One lawyer, James Bopp Jr., has been doing this sort of thing on the state level for years, and he's got 30 knockouts in 33 decisions...
...that these four were the only oddballs in town this week. There was Lenora Fulani, the ultra-leftist African-American independent politico and former Buchanan bedfellow, leading her entourage of New York delegates away from the Buchanan camp, into the Hagelin mini-convention, then back into the Buchanan side of the Reform convention seeking a larger walk-out of dissidents. There was an obese, half-naked Long Beach resident named "Ski" Demski, who entered the convention hall with his massive belly depicting tattoos of an American eagle while his back was adorned with a large flag. There was another fellow...