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Some Congressmen may try to avoid lobbyists, but many have come to depend on them. "God love 'em," quips Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy. "Without them we would have to decide how to vote on our own." Sarcasm aside, lobbyists do serve a useful purpose by showing busy legislators the virtues...
2) The comments by Pi Eta members watching the protest were crude. They were not without a point, however, i.e., is it not concern able that organizations such as GLSA are equally morally reprehensible to some students' (No! No! Never at such a broad-minded University!) Or is it the...
As Hamilton urged, the Constitution provided a presidential veto power so that no Executive would be left at the mercy of any Congress. The veto clause was, by John Adams' proud reckoning, one of eight such checks and balances in the Constitution, all meant to ensure that no one...
Some professors said they opposed the plan for a reading period because it intruded upon teaching freedom. However, Andrew Wiget, assistant professor of English and Native American studies, said, "I don't see how the creation of a space legislates what I teach at all."
The bigger the government, the more it governs, right? Wrong, snorts Charles Peters, the irrepressible, iconoclastic editor of the Washington Monthly, who has written a sprightly, salty assault on practically everybody in the nation's capital, How Washington Really Works (Addison-Wesley; 146 pages; $10.95). The secret is that...