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...member who could be bought. But there were always a few around who could be rented for a time. There was a simple test in the offices where I worked: if something offered to us could also be given to the average person-a pencil, calendar, ballpoint pen-we could accept it. If something was offered to us because we worked in Congress, we turned it down. Football tickets, meals in expensive restaurants or golf outings like Abramoff paid for are not offered free of charge to the average person. Gary K. Madson Lancaster, Virginia...
...have invented the integrated circuit and the Internet and the lightbulb, but people all over the world get to use them. Same goes for the statin drugs that lower cholesterol and the iPod. And we are obviously free to use inventions made elsewhere, such as Velcro and the ballpoint pen...
...member who could be bought. But there were always a few around who could be rented for a time. There was a simple test in the offices where I worked: if something offered to us could also be given to the average person - a pencil, calendar, ballpoint pen - we could accept it. If something was offered to us because we worked in Congress, we turned it down. Football tickets, meals in expensive restaurants or golf outings like Abramoff paid for are not offered free of charge to the average person. Gary K. Madson Lancaster, Virginia, U.S. Time's headline said...
...sign paper copies of students’ electronic study cards, the Office of the Registrar could instead allow professors to electronically approve students’ enrollment requests, and could enable advisors to approve of a virtual study card with the click of a mouse, not the scrawl of a pen. Improvements to shopping period should not come from the Registrar alone; professors should post full syllabi on their course web sites well before the first class meeting—in place of the partial or nonexistent syllabi often found online in advance of this semester’s shopping period?...
...question that Specter and other senators have already been informally discussing, but they aren't likely to find an easy answer. The first problem, and one of the reasons some lawmakers have stopped short of putting pen to paper, is that "they still don't know what Bush is actually doing with this program," says one Congressional expert in bill drafting. Only a few top members of Congress have been briefed on the highly classified NSA program, and some of them have complained that those briefings have been frustratingly short on details. Congressional staffers well versed in the ways...