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...capital is its potent lobby. It maintains more than 600 lobbyists--more than one for every member of Congress. It spent $435 million to influence Washington from 1996 to 2003 and handed out $57.9 million in contributions from 1991 to 2002, according to Common Cause. Says Representative Pete Stark, a California Democrat who has waged a decade-long war for lower Medicare drug prices, a move that government auditors say could save taxpayers nearly $1 billion a year: "These guys are awfully good. I only wish they were on the right side of the issues. They don't care about...
...think it's an open question whether any adult should gamble ... It's an absolutely closed question whether a baseball player should gamble on baseball." WILLIAM BENNETT, former Secretary of Education, conservative spokesman and confessed gambler, on Pete Rose's admission that he gambled on baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds...
...There wasn't always a clear-cut moment of succession, but the public knew soon enough when one had occurred, never mind the rankings. So it was that McEnroe eventually succumbed to Ivan Lendl, who made way for Stefan Edberg. Later, Boris Becker and Jim Courier shone brightest before Pete Sampras reigned through much of the '90s. And now? Well, there's ... no one, really. There's an official No. 1, of course - the American Andy Roddick - but only the tennis nuts would know that for sure. Nearly everyone else would be tossing up between Roddick, the ageing great Andre...
...decision would not be popular, perhaps, but there are times when a public-opinion poll does not produce a principled result. Rose alone has kept himself out of the Hall of Fame. That honor should go to honorable players, umpires, executives and managers. If it is not in Pete Rose to be sorry or sad or to feel guilty, then it should not be in Commissioner Selig to feel merciful. For most of us, the premise of forgiveness is contrition. So, as Rose put it himself, "Let's move...
...great week to watch famous people try to squirm out of bad situations. Pete Rose's confession that he bet on ball games came 14 years too late--and was insufficiently repentant--for many fans. But he had plenty of company. How sincere were the others in the headlines? That's for the rest of us to judge...