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...legislative record, and as much energy, ambition and shamelessness as D'Amato. (The most dangerous place in Washington, Bob Dole once said, is between Schumer and a TV camera.) And this time, some of D'Amato's old tricks haven't been working. He and his consultant, the reclusive Arthur Finkelstein, like to brand opponents as hopelessly, shamelessly, endlessly liberal, but Schumer supports the death penalty and wrote the 1994 Crime Bill, which put 100,000 cops on the beat, so the charge hasn't stuck. Schumer has authored major gun-control legislation (the Brady Bill and the assault-weapon...
...hold the vacuous andhypocritical snobbery of the family in totalcontempt but constantly seek the validation of thefamily in all they do. Thus even though RobertLowell would come to publish book after bookflagrantly railing against the Winslows and theLowells, he would as a child constantly seek theaccolades of his grandfather Arthur Winslow. Yearslater, Stuart in desperation decides to fall backon her sense of family honor so ritualisticallyingrained and return to her family's homestead inConcord, to a house near Walden Pond. Here sheexpects her children to learn to swim at the famedlocale. The children desert the pastoral settingfor a local pool...
...privatization of Social Security poses new challenges, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Arthur Levitt told an audience yesterday at the Institute of Politics...
...Reader Rabbit series helped his eldest son learn to read. But software doesn't have to be educational to be a good buy. Just Grandma and Me became a best seller among preschoolers even though it was little more than an interactive picture book. And parents who found Arthur's Teacher Trouble such a charming diversion from the tube will also like Arthur's Computer Adventure, which has reading and math games...
...Matthew Shepard, 21, died in hospital Monday after being found lashed to a post outside Laramie last Wednesday in near-freezing temperatures, his skull so badly fractured that doctors could not operate. Local high school dropouts Arthur Henderson, 21, and Aaron James McKinney, 22, are to be charged with Shepard's murder. The attack has focused the anger of local gay rights activists against the state's legislature for rejecting hate-crimes legislation. House Speaker Newt Gingrich received a personal plea on the issue Tuesday -- from his sister Candace, national spokesperson for the Campaign for Human Rights, who told...