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Even when the public does find a direct link between a contribution and a Congressman's vote, throwing the bum out is not as easy as it used to be. Incumbents with huge campaign chests scare off all but the most fearless challengers. Add to money the other advantages of incumbency -- free broadcast studios, newsletters that are printed and mailed to constituents at the taxpayers' expense, a staff that helps hundreds of local voters get Social Security checks -- and it is no wonder that only 50 of the 435 House races are being genuinely contested this year...
...notch Bleacher Bum...
During the 1980's, the United States has had its moments at the Winter Olympics. Few will forget speedskater Eric Heiden's five gold medals at the 1980 Games at Lake Placid, N.Y. Or when Bill Johnson, the typical ski bum, conquered the mountains at the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...
About the only taste of life's grittiness that the wealthy residents of Beverly Hills have ever known was the time a bum showed up at the posh home of a local manufacturing executive. And that was just a movie, Down and Out in Beverly Hills. But last week the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development stunned everyone on glitzy Rodeo Drive by placing Beverly Hills on a list of 10,000 economically "distressed" cities. As such, the home of the stars, where the average household has an annual income of $41,000 and many residents make a hundred...
...joke comic; he is a philosopher." Mason seems to be the only one who admits that he is a "sensation for the same Jewish jokes that made me a failure." Perhaps, he thinks, it is the setting: "In the theater they see ; you as an artist instead of a bum telling jokes in a toilet." Then again, the Honda commercial may have it right: "Nobuddy understends dis." Or needs to. "As long as they laugh," Mason figures with rabbinical wisdom, "who cares...