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Lobbying may be the one remaining recession-proof industry, and as Washington prepares for a summer-long debate over how to reform health care, lobbyists for every conceivable interest group have camped out in congressional anterooms to press their case. There are advocates for doctors, insurance companies, patients, nurses, pharmaceutical companies, big business and small business. And for faith healers...
...Richard; the religion is the Montreal Canadiens. • It's safely homoerotic for the hetero man: dudes in this game touch and rub up against each other constantly and straight guys scream for more. Woof! • The humility inherent in the sport: they make themselves more available to the press than any other athletes and always talk about "Getting it done" with "heart" and "team effort" and "character." • Whole wordless epics unfold with every shift, as we wait to see how X will retaliate for Y's behavior in the last period. • At any moment, someone might...
...Intelligence Agency a bald-faced liar, at least not when they're speaking to a room packed with dozens of national media outlets. And yet that is exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did on Thursday. "Madam Speaker, just to be clear," stuttered a reporter at a Capitol Hill press conference, "you're accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2002?" "Yes," Pelosi declared definitively, "misleading the Congress of the United States...
...outrage was predictably swift. "It's hard for me to imagine that anyone in our intelligence area would ever mislead a member of Congress," House minority leader John Boehner told reporters in a press conference immediately following the Speaker's. "When you look at the number of briefings that the Speaker was in, and other Democrat members of the House and Senate, it's pretty clear that they were well aware of what these enhanced interrogation techniques were, they were well aware that they had been used, and it seems to me that they want to have it both ways...
...hair. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who's known in Burma simply as "the Lady," was dragged to the notorious Insein Prison on Thursday morning to face charges of disobeying the terms of her house arrest. On May 3, according to the Burmese state press, an American man illegally swam across a lake to Suu Kyi's waterfront villa and snuck into her compound for two nights. Foreigners are not allowed to stay overnight in Burmese houses - and Suu Kyi is no ordinary lady. The leader of Burma's crushed democratic opposition, she has been confined...