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Although Lee says he enjoyed the job, he notes that it took much more time and commitment than he had ever expected. He estimates that he spent more than 20 hours a week at the job, much of the time devoted to unglamorous paper and leg-work...
...American Viet Nam veterans to the Soviet Union. The program has achieved profound communions between men who thought of themselves as enemies. In Moscow, after a Soviet vet ripped open his shirt to reveal a wound caused by a U.S. machine gun, a Viet Nam veteran displayed a leg wound inflicted by a Soviet-made mine. Suddenly, the strangers sensed, as American Larry Oswald put it, that they were "in many ways brothers." Said Soviet veteran Sasha Karpenko: "We feel ourselves part of those who died in Viet Nam. This is our mutual tragedy...
...Bosket still finds ways to attract attention. While en route to court last month, he kicked a guard who was removing a leg manacle and then shouted to photographers, "Did you get that picture? Did you get that on film?" That act was reminiscent of the time last year when Bosket plunged a makeshift 11- in. knife into the chest of a guard, in full view of a newspaper reporter Bosket had enlisted to write his life story. The guard was critically injured but recovered. "Sensationalism sells newspapers," the baby-faced butcher blithely explains, "and the system responds to violence...
...investigators gather evidence and make more arrests, Hurlbut browses through rows of Hefty Mamas, Leg Show, Bizarre Fantasies and other beckoning titles with the indifference of a hardened vice cop. "Victimless crime -- crap," he whispers. "Follow me." The white-haired Hurlbut eases his 225- lb. frame through an entrance marked PEEP SHOWS and into a darkened warren of viewing rooms. In each of the empty plywood cubicles, VCRs still hum, and the trappings of recent sexual activity abound. "The average guy has no idea what scumbags these places are," he snaps...
...congressional spouse should have a leg up socially and professionally; instead it is like having one foot shot off. "No one takes you seriously if they bother with you at all," says Jo Ann Emerson, wife of Missouri Congressman Bill Emerson and deputy communications director of the National Republican Congressional Committee. In Washington ignoring most of the women at a cocktail party is considered an efficient use of networking time. Let John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor walk into a room, and all the suits head toward the Virginia Senator. Taylor describes her three lonely years as a congressional wife...