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...outsider when I arrived, I felt felling not so much an outsider as a visitor who had not enjoyed the full Harvard experience and was not qualified to think of myself as a Harvard person (whatever that means). My sense of the Harvard I missed is embodied in George Weller's lovely but little-remembered novel from the mid-30s Not to Eat, Not for Love. It was only at reunions 25,40,45 and now 50 years later that I came to see that we were all outsiders one way and another. In some part, I suppose...
Balanoff is hopeful that in this traditionally Democratic district--it has voted for Bill Clinton, Paul Simon and Carol Moseley-Braun--a Republican Congressman is an anomaly. He blames Jerry Weller's victory in 1994--by 34,000 votes--on the 68,000 Democrats who didn't bother going to the polls. Balanoff does offer a choice: he wants to balance the budget by cutting "corporate welfare," not funds for Medicare or education...
...JERRY WELLER (R) District...
...Republicans vigorously pursued this open seat--a diverse district of densely populated suburbs, growing middle-class neighborhoods and rural farming communities--and are anxious to keep it. A conservative who opposes abortion rights and favors anticrime measures such as requiring criminals to pay restitution to their victims, Weller has also learned the art of constituent services. While seeking funds for a third Chicago airport on the southern edge of the district, he secured a $1 million renovation grant for Lansing's reliever airport...
...other hand, the sensational aspects of Raging Heart would have given it a few days' tongue life if not for its collisional debut with Simpson's own offering. Written by journalist Sheila (Amy Fisher: My Story) Weller, the book draws on interviews with about 80 friends and relatives of the couple to present details you'll probably wish you hadn't learned; for example, Nicole was a lip-gloss woman from way back. The book says, `` `Please take that off her,' Denise Brown told the mortician, indicating the pasty dark red lipstick he had applied to Nicole's mouth...