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...along with the argument that accepting bundles of money from political-action committees is not tantamount to taking bribes. Congress's refusal to consider real reform of its campaign-finance system makes sense only to other professional politicians, for many of whom retention of power is the paramount goal...
...rich corporate parent to help finance the skyrocketing cost of film production, marketing and distribution. To make ends meet, Orion even had to sell off the theatrical rights to a major film it had developed, The Addams Family, which already has grossed more than $67 million for rival studio Paramount Pictures...
...women," as if such a manual would create new psychos. Richard E. Snyder, chairman of Simon & Schuster, quickly caved in to the feminists and canceled his company's publication of American Psycho in the name of "taste." Amanda Urban, Ellis's agent, characterized the cancellation as "a giant corporation [Paramount Communications, which owns Simon & Schuster] responding to prepublication controversy and strong-arming its publishing division into abandoning its own tradition of fearless publishing...
...Reproductive freedom is an important right," says Kansas state representative Kerry Patrick, "but a child's right to be born healthy is paramount over a woman's right to bear a drug-impaired baby. And we, the community, have a right to be spared unnecessary costs. Simply to provide welfare payments and education from kindergarten through the 12th grade for a healthy child costs $205,000 in Kansas, a figure that climbs astronomically if that kid is born drugged...