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This sketchy behaviour is not the exclusive terrain of Democrats. The Republican National Committee just had a three-day event in Palm Beach. Individuals and corporations who donated at least $175,000 over four years were invited to consort with leading Republican leaders including Sen. Trent Lott (R-Mich.), the majority leader, Sen. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the speaker, and Rep. Robert Livingston (R-La.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee. To give access to and listen to the needs of only those who can pay seems to be a rather odd way of running a democracy...
DIED. ELREY JEPPESEN, 89, ex-mail pilot who parlayed his meticulous terrain notes into a multimillion-dollar business publishing air-navigation charts and other flight information; in Denver. Jeppesen began jotting notes for his own use in the '30s, when charting a course by air meant reading road maps or "hugging" railroad tracks...
...people coming back cover a lot of terrain on the liberal to conservative spectrum," he says...
Small is beautiful. The presidency is a big thing. But in the era of downsized government, little things are fertile terrain for a feel-your-pain incumbent. And what bigger pain than raising a teenager in a vulgar world--thus, the V-chip, school uniforms and curfews. Compassion legislation: it feels so good, and it's oh so cheap...
...talking to Savero Mancini, a man I've got to assume is not one of the tribal elders. Before I can get to my questions, he's unloading facts on me left and right: 170,000 square feet; 2,600 slots, etc. Then he starts into more peculiar terrain. "The day-care program is fully licensed," he explains, "with very tight security...There's only...