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...sisters remember the eczema. "I'd wake up in the middle of the night and hear her scratching herself with a comb or brush," says Nan. "I don't think she ever slept the night through." When Sue was 12, a malignant tumor appeared on her forehead; doctors were able to remove it, but more than 10 operations were needed to rebuild her eyebrow and part of her eyelid. "I just remember, she always had a big bandage around her head," says Mary...
This kind of political brush-off, however, does not take into account how both gay and congressional politics work. Because they are highly mobilized and tend to have more discretionary income, gays have an impact on elections that is disproportionate to their number. They raised a whopping $3.5 million for Clinton. In Massachusetts, the campaign staff of Republican Governor William Weld credited gays, who mobilized against his Democratic opponent John Silber, with helping him get elected in 1990. This power has even greater effect on the congressional level. "No member of Congress -- zero -- votes based on some abstract poll number...
...Roblan emphatically does not guarantee jobs," says Roblan's attorney Andrew Cove. Universal Placement Inc., one of the firms sued by Florida, says it provides an honest resume and referral service and claims that job-scam artists are hurting legitimate companies. "We all get painted with the same black brush as companies that run job scams," says Jack Thav, the company's executive vice president...
...unthinking adherence to a motto like "we are not in this to be nice" makes it too easy to brush aside criticism that may be legitimate. Each issue of a newspaper includes not only the news, but also the editors' and reporters' personal judgments about what is interesting and important. Consequently, news people are not always willing to take criticism. To question an editor's judgment, they think, is paramount to questioning a bloodhound's nose. When news is the topic, few journalists will readily admit they are wrong, especially when non-journalists are raising the questions...
Indeed, most of the crowd seemed to want apiece of Clinton--not just as a brush with famebut to share his exuberance...