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...years ago, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden ripped off part of a speech from a British politician, Neil Kinnock. Then he had the audacity to tell the media that the hullaballoo over his plagiarism was "much ado about nothing...
...measure would require drug testing for federal prisoners eligible for parole and severely curtail the ability of state prisoners, including death- row inmates, to challenge their conviction in federal habeas corpus proceedings. While a similar anticrime package died in House-Senate negotiations last year, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, the measure's chief sponsor, predicted that this bill would prove more palatable...
...last thing the President wants is a brawl with the Judiciary Committee over confirmation. The committee's chemistry is already explosive enough, with such liberals as chairman Joseph Biden and Ted Kennedy squaring off against conservatives Orrin Hatch of Utah and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on issues like the crime and civil rights bills. "The Democrats aren't beating us anywhere right now, and we want to keep it that way," says a senior White House official. "The President has them beaten in approval ratings. When he vetoes a bill, we're able to sustain it. When he wants...
Silver-Plated Muzzle: JOE BIDEN Judiciary Committee hearings seldom get under way until the Delaware Democrat finishes showboating with witnesses as the TV cameras roll...
...Commandments warn against stealing, against bearing false witness, against coveting. Plagiarius is kidnapper in Latin. The plagiarist snatches the writer's brainchildren, pieces of his soul. Plagiarism gives off a shabby metaphysic. Delaware's Senator Joseph Biden, during the 1988 presidential primaries, expanded the conceptual frontier by appropriating not just the language of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock but also of his poignant Welsh coal-mining ancestors. Biden transplanted the mythic forebears to northeastern Pennsylvania. He conjured them coming up out of the mines to play football. "They read poetry and wrote poetry and taught me how to sing...