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Although the Senate has no shortage of clerical staff, female professionals are still expected to act as hostesses, showing a constituent, a defense contractor or a contributor around. In a Senate dining room, a young aide delivering papers to her boss was asked to remove her jacket so that a constituent could get a better look. She did. To someone operating in that atmosphere, perhaps, as Senator Arlen Specter said at Friday's hearing, talk of "women's large breasts" hardly seems such a big deal...
Those predecessors included such stalwart liberal thinkers as founding editor Herbert Croly and early contributor Walter Lippmann. But in 1974 the magazine was bought by Martin Peretz. It subsequently reflected his evolution from a major donor to liberal Democratic causes to a leading neoconservative with hawkish views on foreign policy. During the 1980s the magazine went soft on the Reagan Administration, ridiculed much of the Democratic Party for its lack of pragmatism and echoed Peretz's forceful pro-Israel views. No journal has done better explaining the often unprincipled but always practical reasoning of Bush Administration officials, who routinely unburdened...
...Senate Select Committee on Ethics is not known for speedy action or exemplary justice. In February the committee closed the books on four of the five Senators accused of intervening with federal regulators on behalf of failed S&L boss and campaign contributor Charles Keating Jr. However, the members continued to dither over what to do about the fifth Senator, Democrat Alan Cranston of California, who allegedly got $984,000 in Keating campaign gifts for helping with the Feds. Last week, angered at the slow pace of the 18-month probe, North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms released...
Having never backed down from a challenge, be it academic or athletic, Barringer made the team and was a major contributor during his junior and senior years...
...Harvard is a very major contributor to public policy...