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Other lawmakers, like Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire, insist that any member of Congress who keeps a job has an automatic conflict of interest. Baker responds that only those who live and work back home really appreciate the needs of constituents. Today's Congress, says Baker, spends most of the year in Washington worrying about the minutiae of complex legislation. "I cannot see any place in the Constitution or the early documents of the Republic where it says Congress was supposed to compete with the bureaucracy in the detailed daily nitty-gritty of governing this country," Baker adds...
Although the Polish government generally, if grudgingly, tolerates the committee, members are under no illusions about their status. They insist, however, on the church's right to undertake charitable activities, even under martial law. Says a volunteer: "It is a legal way of defying the authorities, and we want to show that we can deal in a Christian way with the people running this country...
...extremely costly Rubens drawing." I claim, legitimately, to be well read, and yet at the age of 26 have not discovered Dickens or Dostoyevsky, my favorite Russian author. My sexual inclinations are an open secret even in the early years, yet in a 1902 letter speaking of homosexuals I insist that...
...best form of protectionism for the U.S. is to insist that our allies share the cost of global defense. If Japan and Western Europe picked up their part, then their industries would start making tanks and planes instead of automobiles and electronics. Diminishing our defense commitments would result in higher employment in this country and a stronger alliance with our free-world partners...
...scene from Damn Yankees, Kittle played Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo., hitting so many batting-practice homers that witnesses now insist the hits were all homers and five of them landed in the upper deck. He was packed off smartly to the minor leagues. The only question: Why had Kittle hit so poorly in the Dodger organization? The answer was that he had a broken neck. That is, without realizing it, he had two crushed vertebrae that pinched a nerve in his neck and numbed his right arm. On his own he underwent a spinal fusion in 1978. How Kittle...