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There are other abuses in special pleading. Some Senators have willingly lent their names and their office letterheads to big mail campaigns, conveying the false impression that the pleas are endorsed by the Senate. A House subcommittee headed by New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal has discovered that hundreds of corporations have been deducting their grass-roots lobbying efforts as a business expense despite clear congressional and IRS declarations that they may not do so. A few lobbyists seem to be in an unreasonable rush to cash in on the money available in the business. Two former aides of Senator Ribicoff...
Unless the extracted eggs and the husband's sperm ? usually obtained by masturbation ? are kept at the right temperature and pressure, free of contamination and in an appropriate culture medium (salts, nutrients and sometimes blood serum), fertilization will not occur. Explains the University of Pennsylvania's Benjamin G. Brackett: "You don't want the eggs to suspect they are out of the body...
NONFICTION: A Place for Noah, Josh Greenfeld -Congo Diary and Other Uncollected Pieces, Joseph Conrad First Person Rural, Noel Perrin Reflections, Waller Benjamin Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Finally, the Justice Department was prodded into action last week by two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and James Abourezk of South Dakota. They wrote a letter to Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, reminding him that the committee was drafting new rules of conduct for FBI agents and was "intensely interested" in the controversy about Rowe...
...maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself. Speech conquers thought, but writing commands it ... Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Literary honor requires that one break off only at an appointed moment . . . Avoid everyday mediocrity. Semirelaxation, to a background of insipid sounds, is degrading." Benjamin ends his list with "The work is the death mask of its conception...