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...calendar, ballpoint pen-we could accept it. If something was offered to us because we worked in Congress, we turned it down. Football tickets, meals in expensive restaurants or golf outings like Abramoff paid for are not offered free of charge to the average person. Gary K. Madson Lancaster, Virginia...
Karenna Gore Schiff Some people live the lives they've been given, and some--in the words of Southern belle turned civil-rights activist Virginia Durr--"step outside the magic circle" of the world they were born into and make it better. It's the latter group that interests Schiff (who is Al Gore's daughter). She vividly profiles nine women, some well known, like labor firebrand Mother Jones, some less so, like Alice Hamilton, one of the first doctors to fight for industrial safety, who asked, "Is it sensible to assume that what is American is necessarily wisest...
...apparently drove to Charleston, West Virginia, where he picked up Jennifer Rena Bailey, 33, whom police now simply describe as someone with whom Robida had a "prior relationship." And then they were off, unnoticed until they got to Gassville, Arkansas, on Saturday afternoon. The town policeman, James Sell, 63, spotted the car and pulled it over. But Sell never got a chance to question Robida. The policeman was shot and killed as he approached the car. Robida and Bailey then sped...
...calendar, ballpoint pen - we could accept it. If something was offered to us because we worked in Congress, we turned it down. Football tickets, meals in expensive restaurants or golf outings like Abramoff paid for are not offered free of charge to the average person. Gary K. Madson Lancaster, Virginia, U.S. Time's headline said it all. But you can't buy what isn't for sale. When are American voters going to demand elected leaders who will put the common good of the people above their self-interest? If we keep electing incumbents with for sale signs hanging from...
...urgency among the European élite about how they might respond to the new world. There was more, of course - at Davos, there always is. Those wanting a sneak preview of a possible 2006 match-up in the U.S. presidential race could catch both Senator John McCain and former Virginia Governor Mark Warner. Those anxious to understand modern design could chat to Rem Koolhaas, while opera buffs sought out Peter Sellars. You have to pick and choose in Davos, to decide what it is that you take away from the long journey up the mountain. For me, the key message...