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...Revolutionary War, he faced a corps of officers who feared they would be sent home, by order of an impecunious Congress, without pay. He called a meeting to assuage their disgruntlement and head off mutinous thoughts. At the climax, he offered to read a letter from a Congressman who promised better things. He began, paused, then took out a pair of glasses. "Gentlemen," he said, "you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Exeunt omnes. End of the mutiny...
Some lingering critics still found wiggle room in the U.N. panel's findings. "I think there is a healthy debate ongoing, even though the scientists who are in favor of doing something on greenhouse gases are in the majority," says Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. But when your last good position is to debate the difference between certain and extra certain, you're playing a losing hand. "The science," says Christine Todd Whitman, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (epa), "now is getting to the point where it's pretty hard to deny." Indeed it is. Atmospheric levels...
...JONES, former Georgia Congressman who played Cooter on The Dukes of Hazzard, after former co-stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat (both singers now) had their Dukes-themed concert with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra canceled. The N.A.A.C.P. had expressed opposition to the planned show...
...focus on women's genitals. But in 1980, when The Dinner Party went on a hugely popular national tour, all those pudendal things caused some people to take a deep breath. As late as 1990, when a proposal was made to house the work on a Washington campus, Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan could still denounce it in the House as "ceramic 3-D pornography...
...problem of piracy on campuses. His letter goes on to insist that college administrators fulfill their “reasonable role” by setting up technological barriers on networks and alerting its students of impending lawsuits. The pressure on universities has spread to the federal government as well. Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-Calif), whose district includes much of Hollywood and America’s entertainment industry, more recently began a hearing on digital piracy in the world of higher education. Berman inveighed against universities, suggesting they “have turned a blind eye to piracy...