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...garden-club meetings and farm co-ops. He averaged 250 town meetings a year. As a member of the Investigations and Oversight subcommittee of Commerce, he got subpoena power and the chance to expose everything from tainted baby formula to toxic-waste dumps to influence peddling in the contact-lens-solution business. He was a tireless, exhaustively prepared prosecutor, but he was not ideologically predictable. He supported serious campaign-finance reform before McCain made it cool - and before his own travails at the Buddhist temple demanded some public penance...
...friendly, the most useful contact I've had with Harvard staff administration," said Mike J. Schultz '02 who credits Hunt with getting him a summer job at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
...intelligence chief could lead a coup d'etat by calling in favors from the military's top commanders who are, for the most part, his personal appointees. Coup rumors have been rife since the return of Montesinos, and Fujimori claims to be trying to get his former enforcer to "contact the authorities" to lay such rumors to rest. The president did, for good measure, order the military confined to barracks while he goes knocking on doors...
...parents will react, tread lightly. Lynn Lott, co-author of Positive Discipline for Teenagers, felt terrible after she caught her eighth-grader drinking with friends, but worse after she told their parents and then one of the kids got a beating. In iffy cases, it might be better to contact a child's teacher or guidance counselor...
...friend who stumbled on the pot party didn't contact the other kids' parents, in part because she couldn't bear to be a tattletale, in part because she was under so much stress at the time and couldn't imagine taking on more. When the father of one of the smokers found out anyway, he was furious at being left in the dark...