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...nothing to me, really, you know how I feel about these biddies meddling and gossiping and trying to control people’s lives—what I mean is, I’m telling people you’re the new housekeeper,” is how Frank Lloyd Wright introduces his latest mistress Olgivanna Miljanova to his estate Taliesin. He seems to expect that she will accept her new title without protest or even remark. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she does. Such is the charismatic power and authority with which T.C. Boyle imbues the enigmatic Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Democrat Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, echoed those concerns, arguing that pursuing restitution by other means was preferable. House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel also opposed using the tax code "as a political weapon" until the Speaker sat on him to write the legislation passed Thursday in the House. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended his measure, saying that by expanding the pool of bonus recipients to all institutions that have received $100 million from the government, the legislation would likely survive judicial challenge. "We've pushed the constitutional question pretty hard with constitutional...
...Still, Benedict's public declaration on March 17, as he was en route to Africa on his first visit as Pontiff, that advocacy of condoms actually "increases the problem" of AIDS has pushed the rhetorical envelope - and enraged may inside and outside the church - like only this quietly frank, theologically driven Pontiff knows how. The Spanish government announced it was sending 1 million condoms to Africa just as Benedict was arriving on the AIDS-ravaged continent. By the following evening, top government officials in France, Germany and the Netherlands had all publicly condemned the Pope's statement. Vatican spokesman Father...
...massive agenda for President Barack Obama's first year in office, and already some in the environmental community are worried that their agenda will be sacrificed. Global-warming issues face particularly tough obstacles, especially at a time when the prophets of other crises proclaim more-imminent doomsdays. Obama, says Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, "is taking on an awful lot of sacred cows all at once, and these are cows that have sharp teeth and are going to bite back." (What exactly is a green-collar...
...House, Congressman Gary Peters of Michigan was circulating a similarly confiscatory levy. But House Banking Committee chairman Barney Frank was not about to be bothered with such legislative niceties. He pointed out that the U.S. government - after pledging more than $150 billion in aid to the company - owns 79.9% of AIG. He told reporters, "I think the time has come to exercise our ownership rights. We own most of the company. And then say, as owner, 'No, I'm not paying you the bonus. You didn't perform. You didn't live up to this contract.'" (See how financial madness...