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...told Christopher, who is based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina and has a wife, Jacque, and a 15-month-old daughter, Stacia, that she would rather he not come to Iraq. Christopher has been well briefed on conditions there by his sister. A fan of fellow Indianan David Letterman, Billie sends home Top 10 lists like "Top 10 Reasons Prison Is Better than Serving in Iraq." Among them: better gyms, showers, meals that don't contain chicken, and "not being shot at while you work...
...place stands a tall, blond-haired Indianan named Larry Bird. After a few grueling years in the front office, he's decided to jump back into the battlefield...
...Helms to take the Foreign Relations post, especially if Lugar won the majority leader election and left Maryland's Charles McC. Mathias, a liberal, in line for the job. Last week Helms quietly urged his backers to vote against Lugar in the majority leader race so that the Indianan could take over the Foreign Relations post while Helms stayed on as chairman of the Agriculture Committee, where he can watch over price supports for North Carolina tobacco farmers...
Another source of malaise is surfeit with politics, a turn toward personalism. Says Thorn Pringle, 29, an Indianan with degrees in engineering and business administration now living on Spain's Costa del Sol: "I don't want to fight America's problems. I'm too busy with...
Conservationists are pleased because the quiet Indianan turns out to have a significant record of prosecuting polluters. A graduate of Harvard Law School ('60), he got his first whiff of the task as a deputy attorney general in his home state, when he investigated a tomato cannery for emitting such terrible stinks that townspeople suffered from "olfactory fatigue" and could smell nothing. He went on to file suits against numerous corporations and municipalities for their pollution practices. In 1963 he drafted the Indiana Air Pollution Control Act, which imposed strict standards on local governments and empowered the state...