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NASA's geezer-in-space program starring Senator John Glenn holds many benefits for American society [SPACE, Jan. 26]. The ultimate political junket, this program could entice Senators such as Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms to leave terra firma, giving us respite from their earthly resistance to progress. C. "JACK" BEECHER West Swanzey...
...mistakes do happen on a grand scale and very public level," he admitted during a media junket for his new movie, "Hard Rain." Commenting on fellow actor Robert Downey Jr., who recently received a six-month sentence for violating parole on his drug conviction, Slater added: "We both suffer from a disease that is like a tornado ... it tells you you don't have a problem, so you spend your life blaming everyone else." The only question is - which '80s Brat Pack star will be hit next...
...this year was in the finance committee, where members continued the work of Councillors Brian R. Blais '97 and Edward B. Smith III '97 in reforming student grants guidelines. But still, about 20 organizations were denied funding requests. Meanwhile, two council executives spent $400 on airline tickets for a junket to Philadelphia. Remember: that's your money they're spending...
Death had better watch its step in Washington. The day after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others slammed into a hill in Croatia, editors at the Wall Street Journal showed what steely stuff they were made of by calling the trip a junket. Having criticized Brown in life, they weren't going to let a thing like dying in the line of duty slow them down. Then came Bryant Gumbel, criticizing Republicans for extending insufficient sympathy to the family, which opened the floodgates to comparative condolences. Was Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour's four-line press release equivalent...
...longer content with peddling his noxious racial message in the U.S., Farrakhan has been on a tour of African and Middle Eastern dictatorships, providing aid and comfort to despots whose human-rights abuses and support for terrorism have earned opprobrium around the world. The purpose of his junket, Farrakhan explains, is to discover for himself whether reports in the Western press about totalitarian conditions in these benighted countries are true. His conclusion: oppressing Third World people is O.K. with me unless the oppressors happen to be white, like South Africa's former rulers...