Word: congressman
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...found out sooner or later anyway? Or are they overtaken by grandiosity, the need to be at the center of their own melodrama? Former Cabinet member Robert Reich didn't make things up until he left office. But then he packed his memoirs with numerous vivid scenes, including a Congressman jumping up and down screaming and an attack by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch, which Slate magazine showed in an Internet minute did not happen. And what was Senator Robert Torricelli thinking when he recalled with great emotion the anti-Italian bias he felt when he watched the Kefauver...
That formula--dogged preparation for a rote maneuver that is designed to look bold and spontaneous--has worked well for Gore over the years. As a Congressman in the early 1980s, he would lie flat on his back late at night in an empty House gymnasium and hurl the ball at the hoop again and again; when at last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution...
Away from the microphones, one of the summit's more prominent voices gave it a slightly more cynical spin: Now Congressman So-and-So can go to the Christian Coalition and talk technology, technology, technology. Not that there aren't still a few bugs. Many of the software programs block out innocuous Websites as well as toxic ones; others are cumbersome or do unpleasant things to your computer's operating system. Many in the online industry are touting a new "platform for Internet content selection" (PICS) system that is a kind of V chip for the Internet. But as participants...
DIED. JOHN MOSS, 84, watchdog California Congressman, 1953-79, who authored the 1966 Freedom of Information Act; in San Francisco. Ever on the lookout for government misdeeds, Moss also rigorously defended the First Amendment, the environment (the 1970 Clean Air Act) and consumer rights...
Whenever Newt Gingrich needs a little extra motivation to keep off the 30 pounds he has lost since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...