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...Pentagon backed down, but that wasn't good enough. In May, Stevens and Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico tacked a rider to a budget bill instructing the Pentagon's civilians to keep their hands off the corps. The lawmakers' defense of the status quo is no surprise. The corps spends millions of dollars every year in their states and immortalizes its congressional friends with locks and dams named for them. It is no coincidence that the corps's headquarters is not located in some corner of the Pentagon but sits at the foot of Capitol Hill. The rider...
...that's good, because, unlike the NBA or NFL All-Star games (quick, name anyone other than Alonzo Mourning who played defense in the NBA game), baseball's is actually played for pride and taken somewhat seriously - remember Pedro's strikeouts last year? Dave Parker's throw in '79? Pete Rose's cheap shot on Ray Fosse? And that's especially true of the new guys, just happy to be there and working hard to win one for the league...
...Gabby Hayes-Cactus Jack: A reasonably plausible geezer, older than the presidential candidate - comparable to what you have when you put one of your slightly balding tires in the trunk as a spare. Sixty-eight-year-old Pete Domenici of New Mexico has been mentioned as a possible George Bush spare, for example. Truman did it with Alben Barkley...
...flex their biblical knowledge and hit one home for the little people and everything. But here's a word of advice for any hackers who want to become just a tad more user-friendly: Next time you feel like hacking something, guys, stick to the real Goliaths and for Pete's sake, stay the heck out of my tiny little cubicle...
This time around, though, the ad was sponsored by a secretive tax-exempt group called Shape the Debate, which has ties to former G.O.P. California Governor Pete Wilson. Shape the Debate and its kin, including three groups tied to House G.O.P. whip Tom DeLay, don't have to disclose their donors or their spending so long as they don't say "vote for" or "vote against" a candidate. Also, they're not supposed to coordinate their work with that of a candidate...