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...California legislators, makes attendance at biennial ethics courses mandatory for all state legislators and their staff members. It is probably the first time that an entire legislature has been sent back to school. Typically, Josephson asked participants to enact real-life situations that involve moral dilemmas. A pet example: When a senator is invited to speak out of town, is it proper for the sponsoring group to pay for the air fare and hotel bills of his family? Josephson explains that while such perks may be legal, they are not ethical because they have the appearance of skirting...
...Democratic candidate should slam Bush for breaking a slew of promises to protect the environment (Gore's pet issue) and to increase funding for education (Clinton's). The Democrats should continue to fight for stronger gun control laws, especially now that Ronald Reagan has partially relented on the issue. The popular Dukakis plan to extend health insurance to the 37 million uninsured Americans could also be revived...
...factoids ("Did you know there are 99.3 million cows in the U.S.?") or speaking Japanese with the high school principal, he is making a general pest of himself with the family down the block. He is especially smitten with their 15-year-old daughter Laura, whom he showers with pet names ("Hi, my little Jell-O mold") to no avail. One night he even shows up outside her bedroom window to woo her with an accordion serenade of Feelings...
...fact, loomed large in her calculations. According to prosecutors, Smart decided to get rid of Greg rather than divorce him for fear that her husband, a 24-year-old insurance salesman, would keep not only their condo but also their pet. So, argued prosecutor Paul Maggiotto, she "got her hooks so deep into the hormones" of Flynn that he could not resist her influence. Last week the jury agreed, and Judge Douglas Gray sentenced Smart to life in prison without parole for conspiring to commit murder. All three boys pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and face the possibility...
...from his new post as research associate and guest lecturer at the Center for Transportation Studies at MIT, he continues to survey his pet project's development with an eagle...