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...loyalty have been rewarded with his deepest trust, the steward of his fund raising. Rarely are these staff members known outside the lawmaker's narrow orbit. But when Eppard left Capitol Hill the day after the 1994 election to start her own lobbying firm, many of the nation's richest interests were clamoring to sign her up, showering her with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees...
...politicians reinvent themselves. Wealthy political outsider Steve Forbes [NATION, Jan. 29], while not having to reinvent himself, has reinvented the flat tax, an idea brought back to life by Jerry Brown during the 1992 presidential race. Forbes proposes to give every American, from the very poorest to the very richest, a tax break. Where will he get the revenue to run America? By taxing corporations. What a wonderful idea! Tax powerful companies, and give the money to everyone. Why is this rich, conservative Republican touting such a liberal idea? RANDY ROBERTS Raleigh, North Carolina Via E-mail...
Harvard should not succumb to such base techniques of persuasion. Or at least, the richest school in the country should have a higher price...
Nowhere is that more evident than in the northwestern provinces of Bubanza and Cibitoke, once two of Burundi's richest agricultural regions but now a wasteland. For the past six months, a guerrilla war between Hutu rebels infiltrating from neighboring Zaire and the Tutsi-led army has stripped the steep hill country of inhabitants. Not even aid workers dare enter for fear of attack. A visit last week to the area revealed rice fields and coffee plantations abandoned to forest. Entire villages have been pounded to ruins. Residents who have not taken to the hills or to camps in Zaire...
This understanding yields important concrete results. It means that anyone supporting the 104th Congress's trashing of democracy, its wholesale auctioning of legislation and transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest in our nation, cannot be considered a true volunteer for the public interest. Participants in the "Republican Revolution" who simultaneously engage in social services must be acting out of either ignorance or penitence. For they obstruct the last and greatest of our revolutions, the democratic revolution...