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Washington's most senior Congressman combines hawkishness on military issues--he is a big supporter of funding for the B-2 fighter--with mainstream Democratic positions on social and economic issues. In a district where magnificent forests pit environmentalists and loggers against each other, Dicks has found a way to address both concerns by securing funds for economic diversification and worker retraining--winning elections in the process...
...author of three textbooks, and deeply religious. She is perhaps the only CEO of a multinational company who greets visitors with a hug rather than a handshake. He smoked power-broker cigars, traveled in a custom jet and kept a Louis XIV-style office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little use for such captain-of-industry trappings. After consolidating power, the wealthy widow sold off the limousines and the private jet and dispensed with other perks. While Reg was a master of complex financing, Loida keeps a chalkboard near her desk, on which she writes down...
...Saturday afternoon I stroll over to the Pit, looking for a probable pot smoker, but the brisk weather has sent the alternateens indoors. I circle the area twice and suddenly, I spot one. He's a high-schooler right out of an Urban Outfitters catalog. Sitting on a skateboard and smoking a cigarette, he has the shrewd look of a punk-rock star plastered across his face. His brown hair, shaved on the sides and the back, has enough red streaks in it to piss off any parent...
Students are invited to try their hand at composing the music to accentuate the Kesselheims' lyrics. Casting will be held the weekend of November 23, and auditions for positions in the pit orchestra will continue through January...
...number of G.I.s exposed to the poison during that incident. Then last Wednesday the Pentagon said it was alerting 5,000 American troops who may have been exposed on March 10, 1991, when members of the 37th Engineers destroyed an unknown number of crates containing chemical rockets in a pit several miles south of Bunker...