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...that investors need better protection from corporate abuse. "There's an epidemic of fraud against senior citizens, retirement savings, 401(k)s and IRAs, and unless stronger remedies are given to victims of that kind of fraud, it will get worse," he says. "It's time to stamp...
...Wild Bill" Clay was called a militant when he went to Congress 28 years ago. The first African-American legislator from Missouri, he is still an energetic Democrat: he wanted to cancel the stamp honoring Richard Nixon, and is a persistent critic of Contract with America legislation. A friend of labor and sponsor of the Family and Medical Leave Act, Clay, who survived the 1992 disclosure of 328 House bank overdrafts, still seems solid...
...special interests. But her lack of enthusiasm for spending cuts on social programs may be the hardest thing for her to sell to the conservative Eighth. Among her proposals: increased federal funding for education and welfare reform that includes requiring grocers to contribute up to 5% of their food-stamp income to a training fund for welfare recipients...
...sometimes worry about the books suffering neglect. Who is reading the five miles of books Harvard's brochures brag about? For what purpose did their authors toil to write them? And who needs them all? Once in a while, I'll check out a book whose last date stamp is 17 June 1965 and wonder how many other books have sat on the shelves since Lyndon Johnson was president, waiting to be taken out or even given a second glance...
...Nazi gold was on deposit in Switzerland, a charge Bern vigorously denies. Not all of it was taken from captured central banks. Some was gold from the jewelry and teeth of Jewish victims of death camps. The Germans then remelted it into ingots and camouflaged them with the stamp of the prewar Reichsbank. Despite knowledge of the magnitude of such actions, in 1946 the Allies signed an agreement under which the Swiss handed over only about $60 million to be repaid to the looted countries...