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...Jeffords is a dyed-in-the-wool Vermonter who clings fast to his state?s staunchly Yankee traditions and its conservative values. But conservatism, as we?ve learned this week, means something very different among the Green Mountains than it does in the Beltway. Up north, conservatives talk about the individual?s ascendancy over government, whereas in Washington you?re more likely to hear them talk about the government?s moral agenda...
...convicted, Hanssen could face the death penalty. Plato Cacheris, Hanssen?s defense attorney and a prominent fixture in the Beltway legal scene, has promised to fight a death sentence, saying he does not feel capital punishment is "justified" in this case...
...years, Southwest has grudgingly played on the airline-industry team. It has long been a member of the Air Transport Association, the Beltway's 800-pound lobbyist gorilla that for years has been aggressive - and successful - in defending major airlines' interests. But not a happy one, and in 1997, after a few instances of getting what it thought was the brush-off from several members of Congress, the notoriously independent-minded Dallas-based airline broke down and opened its own lobbying office in the nation's capital...
Back in the Beltway...
Chalk it up to my own cynicism, or perhaps to my general distrust of the sugar-coated drivel that emerges daily from the Beltway and its environs, but I would not like the government to have access to anymore knowledge about me than is absolutely necessary. When someone in Washington authoritatively announces that they need more personal information, I want a good explanation why. I do not want the government to know what books I buy, what kind of music I listen to, who my friends are or where I buy my clothes. I do not want them to know...