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...evangelical fervor, when Buchanan talks about reclaiming the presidency as a bully pulpit, the operative word is more "bully" than "pulpit." He pulls no punches, whether he is attacking the weak or the powerful. And simply by standing up and preaching with such apparent conviction, speaking the unspeakable and crossing the lines of polite political discourse, Buchanan distinguishes himself from every candidate who ever waffled or wavered or hinted or hedged. As the '96 race stands, that distinction promises to carry him a long...
...Mather House representative said that after the initial fervor dies down, he could easily see a compromise on interhouse rules...
...Independence. Adams was as poor as a church mouse and had to pose in borrowed clothes; the portrait was paid for by his friend John Hancock (he of the signature). It is the only Copley painting to show a political figure engaged in conflict. Tight-lipped, all Calvinist fervor and republican anger, Adams points with one rigid finger at the royal charter of the Massachusetts colony, while gripping in the other hand a screed of protest from Boston citizens. In its sharp contrasts of highlighted flesh and dark clothes, it is a most dramatic image...
...even beyond its disastrous social consequences, the deregulatory fervor driving this bill demonstrates precious little knowledge of economics as well. Like the mail service, phone and cable companies have long operated off the principle of cross-subsidization--in order to keep rates standard, customers in densely populated regions pay a de facto subsidy for rural ratepayers. Phone companies have long used this principle to use the bills of profitable long-distance customers to help pay for local service...
...maintained the budget affecting America's 555 recognized Indian tribes at a constant level. Deploring the inefficiency of the BIA, through which most Indian-earmarked money flows, Congress has attempted to funnel more money directly through it to the tribes. This year, however, fueled partly by Republican budget-cutting fervor and partly by what some call a longstanding antipathy toward tribal rights on the part of a powerful Senator, Washington's Slade Gorton, it ripped up the playbook. "We've never seen cuts like these," says Christopher Stearns, Democratic counsel to the House Subcommittee on Native American Affairs, which allocates...