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...agent of historic change. He has an outsize mustache, a quick wit and an ability to energize any room he enters, traits that conjure up comparisons with Jackson. But his hands are those of a polished Washington lobbyist: when he speaks, his left hand rests casually in his pocket while his right hand ticks off the logical points he wants to make; when he listens, his palms press together as he taps his fingers thoughtfully. At a lectern, he talks rather than preaches. On a couch, his relaxed body language and bemused self-assurance give him the aura...
...recommendations by the commission do have a catch, sort of. In exchange for the pay increase, it urges Congress to ban the lucrative speaking fees doled out by companies and lobbies interested in making friends on Capitol Hill. House members are allowed to pocket up to $26,850 in honorariums annually; Senators can keep $35,800. Last year Representatives took in an average of $12,000 in honorariums; for Senators, the median was $23,000. Skeptics warn that once the pay raise goes into effect, the pressure on Congress to do away with honorariums will inevitably tail...
...attack. He and Maria had been returning from an evening at the Atlantic City blackjack tables and, as his story went, their car may have been tampered with and then followed by bandits. Marshall said a wad of bills amounting to more than $2,000 was missing from his pocket. He displayed a superficial head wound...
Proficiency at billiards, it has been said, is a sign of a misspent youth. That is putting it politely. Pocket billiards, commonly known as pool, has had image problems for decades. The pool hall housed illicit kingdoms of numbers | runners and gangsters, winos and bums, four-letter-word expectorators and hustlers named Fats. Trouble brewed in every corner. Sharks infested the murky waters. "You had to watch out for all the spit on the floor," recalls a denizen of the old parlors in Ohio. "Any women who'd come around, you wondered what they did for a living...
Luckily, my options did not stop at the lobby's edge. Virtually every magazine seems to be in the business of helping its readers mark the inexorable passage of time until their subscriptions are up for renewal. For example, I quickly skipped over a promotion for the Newsweek Pocket Diary that bills itself as "the perfect corporate gift." Not in every corporation...