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Dingell has served 41 continuous years in the House, more than any other member. The 6 ft., 3 in. lawyer, called "Big John" and "the Grand Inquisitor," is the ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee. Dingell is basically liberal but favors aggressive foreign policy, a weaker Clean Air Act--to protect his district's automakers--and a reduction in trial lawyers' leverage in product-liability suits...
...hollow gesture," says Katherine Spillar, national coordinator for the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "It would be a lot better to put the money into social services and into education for young women and men." Some medical facilities also fear that they will be put in the role of inquisitor, forced to ask girls who seek pregnancy services about the identity of the partner. And Jeannie Rosoff, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, cautions that when it comes to sex, things like blame tend to get a little murky. "You cannot automatically condemn the man," she says. "The girl could...
...times incendiary remarks (he once denounced the Environmental Protection Agency as a "gestapo bureaucracy"). "If we're going to have hundreds of young Americans dying over there," demanded Inhofe, glaring at Defense Secretary William Perry, "is this mission justification for their deaths?" Perry stared straight at his inquisitor. "Yes," he replied unflinchingly...
WHEN ARLEN SPECTER WAS INTRODUCED at Iowa's state G.O.P. convention last June as Anita Hill's chief inquisitor, the crowd cheered. When he started talking about the intolerance taking over their party, however, they shifted in their seats. When he talked about the necessary division between church and state, they booed...
...pickpockets. Each morning he sets off on foot at a brisk pace, crossing over cobblestones to arrive at 9 a.m. at the palazzo that once bore the title of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. Soft-spoken and courteous, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 66, looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo and the compilers of the index of banned books. The weight of history...