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...Afterschool Alliance had a far better technique: tons of supercute poor kids. A day before we hit the offices of almost 200 congressional members, we sat through an afternoon of PowerPoint-filled workshops at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel to learn lots of stats. These all seemed boring, so I suggested we dress the kids up like street urchins from a Dickens novel and give them dented tin cups...
When we walked into the Capitol, we were not the only ones lobbying. Members of the Alzheimer's Association, which had also been holding seminars at the Grand Hyatt, were walking around with Alzheimer's sashes around their chests, as if they had entered some pageant years ago and had forgotten to take them off. The hallways looked like the set of a Marx Brothers movie, with lobbyists running back and forth in their uniforms: pilots, veterans, real estate agents, guys from the egg producers making omelets...
...moment: when they would be the first people in the world to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, fourth in the adventure series that began with Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981 and the first since The Last Crusade 19 years ago. Inside the Grand Palais, the crowd's mood was more World Cup Final than movie premiere. Some revelers trumpeted the first four notes of John Williams' signature theme, and others responded with the next three. The lights dimmed, the Lucasfilm Ltd. logo materialized, and the audience erupted in cheers...
...grand scheme of things, a one-dollar refund might not seem like much. But in the case of the Harvard University Health Services (UHS) policy that grants students with a “strong moral objection” to abortion a refund on a portion of their health fee, this dollar has more serious implications. It not only undermines the efficacy of University health policy, but also unduly elevates the moral claims of anti-abortionists above all other moral claims...
Along with Ma, former Vice President Annette Hsiu-lien Lu, Grand Justice Lai In-jaw, and the civic leader Eric Tung-sheng Wu are all Law School graduates...