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...capitalist ideal is free markets and level playing fields; the lobbyist ideal is influencing the levers of power to help clients. In 2004 the Denver Post found 100 Bush appointees regulating industries they used to represent as lobbyists or lawyers. That didn't include former quasi-lobbyists like Vice President Dick Cheney, who became a CEO because Halliburton wanted government contracts...
...These are Washington people, not corporate people. They know how to make legislation, not payroll. They're insider hens who made their livings working for foxes, and learning how the henhouse really works. In 2004, the Denver Post found more than 100 top Bush appointees regulating industries they used to represent as lobbyists or lawyers. And that didn't include former quasi-lobbyists like Vice President Cheney, who became a Fortune 500 CEO because Halliburton wanted a Washington hand to expand its access to government contracts...
...Like Donna and Larry Smith, both in their 50s, both career workers, both with HMOs. But when she got cancer and he had heart trouble, the bills mounted so fast that they had to sell their home and move to Denver into their daughter's basement. That humiliation saved them just enough money that they could spend the rest of their life savings on treatment and medication...
...Finally, a little masterpiece lurks here. It is called 14eme Arrondissement by Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways). It consists of no more than a middle-aged Denver woman (Margo Martindale) wandering around the city and reflecting on its sights and her life in her awkward, self-taught French. There's innocence, honesty, sadness and resolve. There's also a wonderful lack of irony or patronization in Payne's treatment of this story, an artlessness in Martindale's performance that is exemplary. It's the last work in Paris, Je T'Aime and its worth waiting for. It's worth the price...
...letter to the Roman church would stretch even Prosperity's sometimes liberal scriptural readings to the breaking point. And any prosperity church, indeed any Christian church, would regard de Jesus's claim to be THE Jesus as heretical. Almost as suspicious, says Miguel De La Torre, a professor at Denver's Iliff school of Theology and co-author of the introduction to the primer Latino Theology, is the way Creciendo's leader has run through self-descriptions over the decades: from "the Apostle" in 1998 to "The Other," a kind of Christ-precursor figure in 1999, to Jesus Christ...