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...John Hannah Jr., a distinguished former federal prosecutor, as secretary of state. Richards is also pushing for sweeping reforms to limit campaign contributions and require full disclosure of lobbyists' spending. Texas badly needs the reforms. Political payoffs are so ingrained that two years ago an East Texas chicken farmer seeking changes in a workers- compensation law brazenly doled out nine $10,000 checks to lawmakers on the floor of the senate...
Most, however, continued to the hills. Somewhere between Turkey and Iraq, the mountains are providing shelter for farmer-poet Mohammed Said and his wife and children. A few weeks ago, during the brief brush with freedom, he had allowed a display of ethnic pride: "I am the rose of Eden, I am the flame that lights the Kurdish darkness, I am the offspring of the Mittani, the Kassites, the Hurrians and the Medes. I am cousin to Alexander the Great, and the juice of the pomegranate drips from my lips like wine." Finally, he said, the suffering of his people...
...George, his neighbor in New Hampshire, needed some help getting his heifer in the family way. So, while O'Rourke grabbed the cow's head and George hugged the middle, a farmer named Pete proceeded with the artificial insemination at the far end. Though he missed most of the intimate details, O'Rourke recalls one thing: "I will never forget the look on that cow's face." That same look, for just about the same reason, appeared on his face when he examined last year's federal farm bill, which, he claims, "does to the taxpayer what Pete, George...
What do you give the farmer who has everything? How about a copy of the Lawyer's Guide to Payment Limitations, a $20 book for farmers (and their financial advisers) who want to bone up on ways to skirt the law that limited agricultural subsidies to $250,000 a person. A brochure for the 195-page opus boasts that it "contains annotated text, checklists, and sample pleadings" to help haymakers boost their government-supported income...
Occasional disputes divide the town. The argument about widening Highway 169 from two to four lanes where it passes through the business district sputtered on for 25 years. The staunchest supporter of the status quo was John Dreesman, millionaire farmer, a director of the Interstate Bank and a former city councilman who wore his bib overalls everywhere except to church. He and his wife Agnes had two extremely bright children whose horizons soon extended far beyond Iowa...