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...built for stand-up comedy. But two Fridays ago, Laura Bush was definitely, as they say at the Friars Club, "in the house." She was practicing a then secret, now acclaimed comedy routine that she would deliver the next night at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a tribal feast on the Potomac where some 3,000 reporters--and their sources--converge in a hotel ballroom for steak and fish, wine and laughs. Traditionally, the President does the wisecracking. But earlier this year, after surveying the string of press dinners on his calendar, Bush told aides, "Laura should give...
This year, the small, yet extremely active group—which officially replaced the American Indians at Harvard club in 1993—has gone on trips to fellow Ivy League schools, celebrated the 350th anniversary of the Harvard Indian College, and performed with the Harvard inter-tribal Indian dance troupe...
According to the U.S. Constitution, Native American tribes on reservations possess the right to form their own government, to enforce laws—both civil and criminal—and to license and regulate activities. Limitations on tribal powers of self-government are few, and include the same limitations applicable to state governments...
ABRAMOFF Over the 10 years that I lobbied for Native Americans, my tribal clients continually praised our efforts as delivering far in excess of the amounts charged. We delivered literally billions of dollars in value. That we charged millions of dollars for these services might seem high, especially compared to the typical Washington lobbyist who charges less and delivers almost nothing. But the return on investment for these tribes--and all my clients--is far better than anything they or we could have imagined. The Native Americans I served are sophisticated business people. They are running a multibillion-dollar industry...
Reading Minsk is like stumbling on the tribal songs of some as-yet-undocumented Arctic people: "Here, the bedrock is older than life/ on earth. It carries no trace of death,/ no methane or anthracite, nothing to burn." Greenlaw's poems are dreams of travel and longing for home. They have the clarity and purity one associates with cold air--which makes her rare outbursts of joy and heat and light all the more dazzling...