Word: swamp
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Americans seem to be divided into two camps on the subject of the Congress of the United States: those who consider it an ethical swamp and those who regard that comparison as unfair to swamps. As the members return to work this week, they have an even worse public image to contemplate: not only sleazier but more paralyzed as well. Last week's indictment and demotion of Dan Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was a double whammy. In a short time he has come to symbolize both Congress's lingering tawdriness and its desperate need...
...just released CD Swamp Ophelia is Indigo Girls' most complex and satisfying album. They started off performing at coffeehouses and on street corners, and their early songs were naked and direct -- just the two of them, playing guitar and singing folk music. Swamp Ophelia is more ambitious, with waves of orchestration, African drums, accordions and trumpets; Saliers even plays a long electric-guitar solo. "I think this record is more polarized than our other records," says Ray. "There are more extremes going on. Electric and acoustic. Loud sounds and soft sounds...
...first six decades of Willie Gill's life, the winding dirt road next to his house in Chilton County, Alabama, was a nuisance. If trucks weren't churning its surface into clouds of red dust, rains were turning it into a swamp. Gill, who is black, never really expected the all-white county commission to do much about it. "But Mr. Agee, he come and put in a paved road just about last year," Gill reports. "I'm glad to have...
...murderer grew in a swamp whose murderer sources are found here and across the sea; they are foreign to Judaism," he said. "To him and to those like him we say: You are not part of the community of Israel..You are an errant weed...Judaism spits you out...You are a shame to Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism." His caustic words could hardly have been stronger...
...front of the entire world--and as a Jew, as an Israeli, as a man and as a human being, I am shamed over the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer...This murderer came out of a small and marginal political context. He grew in a swamp whose murderous sources are found here, and across the sea; they are foreign to Judaism...To him and to those like him we say: You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people despise...