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...scene has become depressingly familiar in U.S. state and municipal politics. Over the past three years in New Jersey alone, 67 officials have been indicted and 35 convicted. U.S. Attorney Herbert Stern has snared mayors, legislators, judges, highway officials, postmasters and a Congressman...
...been advised by leading Republicans to write off their donations on their tax returns as business expenses. This disclosure came on top of the conviction six months ago of the Governor's closest political confidant, Secretary of State Paul Sherwin, who had sought a kickback from a highway contractor. Cahill, who had seemed a shoo-in for reelection this year, is now in trouble...
...Sitting outside a Hindu Temple he finds a senile old man who says with wonderful pride that he works there as a "holy water carrier." He sees two Muslim men, their bodies blackened with soot, dancing at midday on a deserted street of a small village. Driving along a highway he stops to film vultures stripping a dead water buffalo of its flesh, burrowing into its eyes and mouth. His images of vitality alternately excite and disgust...
...spring evenings I was walking across the footbridge across the Charles, the sun was setting with a few last rays lighting the green-covered walls and white spires of Cambridge. The cars rushed along on the highway with their headlights going and on the river a few last boats of crew raced. Monet and Raphael are right, I think, the world is beautiful...
...bill that would force major oil companies to sell independents at least 10% of all gasoline brought into the state. In Washington, D.C., Darrell Trent, acting director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness, suggests that commuters form car pools or take public transportation to work and that states reduce highway speed limits because cars consume less fuel at lower speeds...