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...least said is the best off," he says. "If you know the way the vote is going to come out, why bother talking...
...does Mickey Leland's death bother me so much? What made him different from his colleagues in Washington? Did he work harder for his causes? Was he a visionary, not limited by the traditional boundaries of governmental concern? Did he just care more? Simply...
Conversely, why bother to support what market Darwinism seems to condemn to obscurity? "I have fundamental questions," Helms grated, "about why the Federal Government is supporting artists the taxpayers have refused to support in the marketplace." But this was exactly what the NEA was created, in 1965, to do -- and it was the wisest of decisions. Lots of admirable art does badly at first; its rewards to the patron are not immediate and may never come. Hence the need for the NEA. It is there to help the self-realization of culture that is not immediately successful...
...Raab admits that he and Brady have never got along. Brady, he says, has treated the drug issue as a "bother" and has hardly discussed it with him. A spokesman for Brady counters that "Mr. Von Raab's judgment may be affected by the decision to appoint a new Customs commissioner...
...haddock instead. Cod is full of worms. I once worked as a fish gutter, and I was supposed to pick the worms out. That was my job. But since you had to fill a certain quota of boxes in order to get paid, you often didn't bother to get all the worms...