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...wrong questions. There was no conspiracy, no plan to be arrested and nothing out of line about studying a social movement first-hand. As for the IOP, it funds an eclectic range of options. During my semester at the IOP, the Institute was subsidizing a former Republican congressman to fly Harvard students for a day on Capitol Hill. On another occasion, they were paying the fare for Katherine Harris, the Florida official blamed by many for partisan manipulation of the 2000 election, to share her wisdom at Lowell House. Another IOP fellow, the campaign manager for Mass. Gov. W. Mitt...
Charles Rangel --Democratic Congressman from New York and Korean...
CONVICTED. BILL JANKLOW, 64, Republican Congressman and former four-term Governor of South Dakota; of second-degree manslaughter for an August car wreck that killed a motorcyclist; in Flandreau, S.D. Faced with up to 11 years in prison, he announced his resignation from the House...
...Medicare-reform bill. They succeeded, but now even some allies of the bill are upset at the dealmaking that enabled it to happen. The American Hospital Association (A.H.A.), an important supporter of the bill, is furious about a last-minute agreement Speaker Dennis Hastert struck to get California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's yes vote. Hastert promised a vote next year on a bill Rohrabacher plans to introduce that would require hospitals treating illegal aliens to report them to authorities for deportation. The Medicare legislation reimburses hospitals for the $1.45 billion they spend annually caring for illegal immigrants...
...DIED. PAUL SIMON, 75, liberal Democratic congressman and two-term senator from Illinois who ran unsuccessfully for President in 1988; in Springfield, Illinois. Simon, who wore a trademark bow tie and large glasses, argued for shifting spending from the military to social programs, but favored balanced budgets. The son of American missionaries to China, he was a key congressional backer of Taiwan...