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...From the pulpit, Williams noted that the state budgets only "30,000 lousy dollars" a year for witness protection, and lawmakers were rushing last week to fix that. But few states spend much guarding witnesses, in part because most are not nearly as angelic as B.J. "A lot of witnesses are dirt-bags"--criminals themselves who don't want or need protection, says Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. Many face incarceration and want a deal. The federal Witness Security Program is limited to people with important evidence in big cases. (Of those who get in, 98% have...
...disagree with their politics, but you have to admire their pluck. Last week four actors with combative reputations lent their thuggish personalities to the bully pulpit. Expressing his antipathy to impeachment, JACK NICHOLSON appeared at a Los Angeles rally with Barbra Streisand and Ted Danson, while ROBERT DENIRO lobbied Republican Congressmen Jim Ramstad of Minnesota and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on behalf of the President. Meanwhile, in a Los Angeles courtroom, the voluminous MARLON BRANDO joined the volatile SEAN PENN to protest prosecutors' efforts to send former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt back to jail. Pratt was released last year...
...retrospect, Merrill Lynch was really Charlie Merrill's bully pulpit, the platform from which he could preach the virtues of the stock market and show the country that the small investor could get a fair shake on Wall Street. "Demystification had been the key to [my father's] great success," James Merrill later wrote in his memoir. "No more mumbo-jumbo from Harvard men in paneled rooms; let the stock market's workings henceforth be intelligible even to the small investor." To that end, the firm published an endless stream of reports, magazines, pamphlets--11 million pieces in 1955 alone...
...standing here on my bully pulpit railing against "lax academic standards"--not I, one of the beneficiaries of grade inflation! I suppose I'm struggling more with the idea of Truth, at least in the context of academic writing--the sort of writing that occupies each of us at least for the years we are here...
When he addressed the nation on Aug. 17, President Clinton insisted that his relationship with Monica Lewinsky was a private matter between "my wife, our daughter and our God." But it was only hours before the Rev. Jesse Jackson took to his TV bully pulpit to air his pastoral moments with the Clinton family, and only days before the President used Washington's annual prayer breakfast to proclaim himself a sinner. Last week word got out that the President had asked three clerics to monitor his recovery in weekly prayer sessions. The recruitment of so many spiritual counselors to bear...