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Shuster and Eppard insist that he has done nothing special for his longtime aide or her clients. But the real value of effective lobbyists is the ability to make a member of Congress pay attention to the causes they promote. At a conference committee on highway legislation last fall, Shuster...
"This is not a moment for national self-congratulation. But neither is it a moment to underestimate the substantial human and institutional achievements--in terms of education and diversity--of the past few decades...."
Gillian Sorensen, U.N. Under Secretary-General, responded that A Vision of Hope was intended to be a commemorative volume and not a history of the U.N. As the 50th-anniversary celebrations roll on, the distinction Sorensen draws between history and self-congratulation is probably worth bearing in mind.
"It was just a few words of salutation and congratulation to Fred, expressing on behalf of the masters our admiration and appreciation for the way he has facilitated continuing efforts of the masters in every sense, including the educational function of the houses," Hastings said yesterday.
And then there is Danuta Michalowska, an actress who performed with Wojtyla in an underground drama group, the Rhapsodic Theater, during the Nazi Occupation. After his election as Pope, she sent him a formal message of congratulation, lamenting that they could not stay in touch because of his new eminence...