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...Guard members and reservists. A disproportionate number are police officers or fire fighters - the very people whom cities are counting on for homeland security and as first responders. "We have hollowed out our homeland-security force and deployed them around the country and around the world," says California Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher. The call-ups after 9/11 swept up 15% of the Fargo, N.D., police force. Even small losses can have a big impact on cities and states that are staggering under their worst fiscal crises in generations. With three of its 68 police officers deployed, Tukwila, Wash...
...YOUR CLASSMATES AFTER LAW SCHOOL? Almost all of us got married, almost all of us had children, and almost all of us have had great careers. Our group includes private practitioners, law-school professors, an assistant attorney general of Hawaii, a Federal Court of Appeals judge and a former Congresswoman...
Mixing an in-your-face style with right-of-center politics, the Patriot has courted controversy from the start: dubbing Berkeley Congresswoman Barbara Lee a "traitor" for casting the sole vote in the House against authorizing military force in response to the Sept. 11 attacks; calling for the bulldozing of People's Park, a local battleground of civil disobedience; describing the activities of a campus Mexican-American group as "Student Funded Bigotry and Hate." The February edition will celebrate Black History Month with an all-out assault on affirmative action. Says U.C. Berkeley political science professor Bruce Cain: "The right...
...threatened to repeal existing restrictions on abortions. As recently as last Friday, he warned Congress that if a catchall spending bill under consideration omits even one existing curtailment of federal funds for abortion, his advisers would recommend a veto. "It's a mistake to underrate his focus," says Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, an abortion-rights advocate who has found herself on the losing side of the abortion wars. "They are persistent, and they are insistent...
LORETTA SANCHEZ The Congresswoman got laughs and kudos in Washington for her parody of the Master-Card "priceless" ads, featuring her family, with cat Gretzky, in a red Thunderbird...