Word: feds
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...circus that children should attend. It is far too dangerous. Last week, as the lawmakers presided over the public evisceration of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, it became clear that this was a circus with an ancient history stretching back to the days when people were fed to lions. This was the kind with real victims, and no nets...
That will be the painful consequence of the heedless and high-flying '80s. "We live in the box we've got ourselves in," says Lyle Gramley, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and a former Fed governor. "We are paying the price for what we did in the past with this enormous federal deficit. The price goes beyond the poor functioning of the economy now. Here we are, this great, wealthy, affluent nation, and we cannot afford to rebuild our highways or bridges. We cannot afford to have a really serious war on drugs. We cannot afford...
CLARENCE THOMAS is fed up. He believes he was tarnished unfairly by the accusations of some Senators that he is evasive and unscholarly and that he dissembled when he claimed to have held no opinion on Roe v. Wade. But instead of criticizing his accusers, Thomas blames his White House handlers. Says a sympathetic Republican who lobbied Senators on Thomas' behalf: "The White House told him to suck up to people and run away from his views. But as he found out, that approach gets you nothing." Not much respect, anyway...
...right mind would consent to group rape, to sodomy, to being force-fed alcohol to the point of stupefaction. Yet defense attorneys have successfully argued consent in outrageous circumstances, especially if the victim slips up on a detail -- saying it was vodka, for example, when the defense proves...
...have their tickets fixed, refusing to pay for the few perks that are not granted outright. "If ordinary people did that, they would be charged out the wazoo," says C.T. Anderson, a bartender at Manuel's Tavern in Atlanta, who has heard plenty from his customers. "People are just fed...