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Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night, it seems, will keep the House of Representatives away from scandal. Only last October came embarrassing revelations that some lawmakers had written rubber checks totaling more than $100,000 at the House bank and had tallied $300,000 in free meals at House restaurants. Last month the House named a six-member bipartisan task force to look into a new imbroglio at the House post office...
...have any special respect for those whosit in Congress year after year rubber-stampingthe Cold War," Agran says. "In the past 12 yearswe have limited the pool of candidates togovernors an and sentators, and we have had themost awful, rotten years of presidency. Mycampaign is about changing that system...
...interview with Louise Erdrich took place while she was trying to hold onto her "wonderful, healthy" active eight-month-old baby (ten and a half pounds at birth!) in Cornish New Hampshire, and I was trying, in New Jersey, to hold onto my $1.99 rubber dart gun gadget from Radio Shack that allows you to both tape and talk to someone on the telephone [emphasis hers...
Maxine has a small cylinder of rubber inserted between her shoulder blades--the implant works on the same principle as those used in humans, diffusing a conception-inhibiting substance. THE QUOTE OF THE WEEK...
...seldom lead to anything but trouble and unexpected consequences. Gran Catchprice's desire to destroy what she and her late husband have built seems understandable, given her original expectations: "The only thing she had ever wanted was a flower farm, but what she got instead was the smell of rubber radiator hoses, fan belts, oil, grease, petrol vapor, cash flows, overdrafts and customers whose bills ran 90, 120 days past due. It was this she could not stand -- she did it to herself...