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...1950s and '60s, when special interests fished for congressional votes with envelopes of cash. "It was a common practice in those days for a lobbyist to come to a member of Congress and hand him an envelope and say, 'Here, this is for your campaign,' says former Representative Rod Chandler, a Washington Republican. "It was a nod-and-a-wink thing. 'If you use it on your campaign, fine. If not, that's up to you.' Nothing even approaching that happens anymore...
...atomic-arms race destabilizing all of North Asia. The crisis-a-month inspection drama narrows maneuvering room for each of the partners, pushing them closer to a showdown. And amid the maddening back and forth, there is a disturbing possibility that North Korea may be employing the fuel-rod dispute as a smoke screen to disguise a second, undeclared source of bombmaking uranium...
...saved 46 games in 1993, running his career record total to 401. He was 37 years old, he was carrying 270 pounds on his 6 ft. 6 in. frame, and his fastball was no longer overpowering. All that is still true, but in this year of fallen closers -- Rod Beck, Rob Dibble, Bryan Harvey, Duane Ward and John Wetteland have all spent time on the disabled list -- Smith has been the game's best stopper, saving 12 games in 12 tries without allowing a run in 10 2/3 innings through Sunday. He had a save in 12 of his team...
INTERVIEW: Can't Spare the Rod...
...English public (that is, private) school, might cure all that ails American youth. Comparing Fay's sentence to a headmaster's paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan, as it is done in Singapore, can knock a prisoner out cold...