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Loon Lake changes Joe, scrubs him clean, wraps him in respectability as tight as the leather grip on a golf club. Glistening nature blinds him each morning and seduces him each night. The Lake is a world of dreams, of gnawing beavers, whizzing speedboats, amniotic whirlpools, fancy flights and flights of fantasy. Like Orpheus to his river, Joe eventually succumbs to The Lake. He succumbs to wealth, to fame, success and glory. He suffers only the wrenching pain of a boot strap as it pulls itself over a heel...
Statehood proponents say their plan includes a crucial feature. "A state has complete home rule rights," Allen Grip, a spokesman for Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr., explains. Currently, Congress holds a legislative veto over District laws, controlling D.C's budget and judicial process, including the appointment of judges. The District, moreover, has no voting representatives on Capitol Hill. "No one that is in favor of home rule," Grip says, "could be against the initiative...
Proponents disagree. "The primary industry of the District is the federal government," Grip argues. "It will always be that way," he says, adding that even as a state, he thinks, D.C. would be entitled to federal payments...
...sides disagree on whether D.C. as a state could impose a commuter tax. The League feels that since the federal enclave would not be under D.C.'s jurisdiction, D.C. would be unable to impose one. However, Grip argues that many states have a commuter tax and that, as a state, D.C. would be entitled...
...carried so far that it has prevented people who really care about politics from having any voice. People used to be able to have a greater voice by their contributions of time, effort, money and ideas." For better or for worse, the parties and the professionals have lost their grip: the choice, says Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government, "has gotten out of the hands of responsible characters...