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Kellogg's move has caused consternation among members of the local Chamber of Commerce. City boosters say that with no more plant tours, their tourist industry will lose its snap, crackle and pop. They may be right. The town's best remaining attractions are a bird sanctuary and the Battle Creek...
...their contributions going to those already in office. This way, PACs can obtain more influence per dollar, wasting little on those who are not "safe" contenders for office. Unfortunately, with the average House seat costing $500,000 and a six-year lease on a chair in the Senate Chamber running its occupant around $3 million, challengers, receiving few PAC funds, cannot run effective campaigns...
...moving legislation toward passage. Last week, as a cutoff approached for voting bills out of committee and onto the floor, the most frantic spot in town was Room 4202 in the capitol building, the hearing room of the assembly's critical ways and means committee. Day after day, the chamber was aswarm with legislators, their aides and California's highly visible corps of lobbyists...
...search for more information about Jill, the obscene brutality of his world becomes clearer and clearer. For instance, he accidentally discovers that his best friend (Michael Palin, whose performance combines aspects of Josef Mengele and Mr. Rogers into one person) does not run an office, but a torture chamber, gouging people's eyes out while his secretary takes dictation...
...20th century. The best coup is to have reunited the two completed parts of Grosz's blistering anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with a steaming headful of excrement, and a militarist with a swastika tiepin and ectoplastic dreams of conquest in his skull--has a Brechtian violence that is beyond the scope of most modern cartooning...