TILTING AT WINDMILLS

...Her potential competence in this job was suggested during a committee hearing on her nomination held in July, after she had had six months to bone up on the issues...

...Kerrey has displayed more dedication to solving the problem of health care than have his fellow candidates, voluntarily sitting in on more meetings of the Pepper commission than most of its members attended...

...There was no debate on her record at OMB and Justice...

...Major local firms always make sure both parties are represented among the bright young associates they hire, precisely because a considerable number of these associates will opt for a tour in government when their party is in power-after all, the knowledge they gain in government is what makes them rich when they come back to the firm...

...Hackworth also suggests reducing the bloated officer corps...

...And that he might also be motivated by some combination of arrogance and excessive preoccupation with the income to be derived from seeing more patients in less time...

...Gabon had 1,578 and Somalia 6,503...

...In a study of 74 medical It now appears that I have a strong personal motive for continuing the Monthly’s longtime crusade against cigarette companies...

...They don’t have to do anything patently dishonorable...

...This is the guaranteed access that clients seek when they hire a Washington law firm...

...Utica...

...Among the illegal costs were funds spent for alcoholic beverages and “employee personal expenses...

...Of course, California is not the only place where the allocation of resources by law enforcement officials seems a trifle curious...

...You may have read recent stories revealing that Kent’s “Micronite” filter contained asbestos and that Lorillard Inc., its maker, was told in 1954 that Kent smokers were inhaling asbestos...

...This triumph naturally led the Bush administration to reward her with a top job at the Department of Justice...

...One more example of corporate integrity and I’ll stop...

...Buffalo...

...I;;k Washington Post’s Brooke Masters may have found the stupidest government subsidy of them all...

...It’s a nearly full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal by the American Council of Life Insurance that proclaims: “For over 100 years the life insurance industry has been closely regulated...

...economy is, quite simply, that most young people are going into the wrong kind of work...

...Clinton has been willing to spell out a program-something that most candidates avoid like the plague...

...Gus Savage’s Lincoln costs us $978 a month...

...And his jokes are a lot better than Kerrey’s...

...If there are nations in the world he should focus attention on,” we said, “they are not Kuwait and Iraq but Japan and Germany, not only because of the wrongs they are doing this country but, even more significantly, because of what we can learn about our own weaknesses...

...In my many arguments with friends who favored the war, I discovered that their point of last resort was that we had to fight to keep Saddam Hussein from getting the bomb-that an embargo could not be relied upon to accomplish that end...

...And even if you think we should foot the bill, why don’t we save more than half the cost, as Richard Powelson, who broke the story in the Knoxville News-Sentinel, recommends, by having the cars leased through the General Services Administration...

...Are they renting out their diplomatic license plates...

...Another story from California reports that the state now gives legal rights to chickens...

...with his oratory is unfortunately negated by his defensiveness, which is especially ill-suited to a job that would make the sanest and most reasonable man paranoid...

...This, a court could decide, is a fraud on creditors...

...The most important of the others include: 1) To encourage consumer spending and to right the wrongs of Reaganism, reduce the combined impact of social security and income taxes on families earning less than $50,000 a year...

...But the Kuwait-Iraq border has no jungles or mountains...

...He-we -just go on making lease payments...

...Why can’t they buy their own cars like the rest of us...

...It’s time to resurrect our Only in California Department...

...Most of my friends range from condescending to scornful in their dismissal of the Democratic presidential candidates, yet Kerrey, Clinton, and Tsongas are very good men...

...It is flat desert with no protection against attack from the air...

...I think these deaths could have been avoided and our ends attained if we had simply stuck with the embargo as the Monthly urged...

...Well, we fought the war and devastated Iraq...

...Indeed, the evidence is daily more troubling...

...It was temporary insanity, of course...

...I don’t know whether this item belongs in the Only in California Department or if it’s just another in our long series on the sins of lawyers...

...So what are we relying on now to keep Saddam from getting the bomb...

...TILTING AT WINDMILLS tists so ruthlessly...

...Why are we paying to lease cars for congressmen in the first place...

...It is the $100-perpassenger subsidy the Department of Transportation is paying to finance flights to the Homestead, one of the nation’s poshest resorts, in Hot Springs, Virginia...

...It used to be that if you wanted lots of steam in your romance, your hometown seemed a good deal less promising than New York City...

...Among the recommendations by Time’s Don Goodgame and Nancy Traver were “cut welfare spending for the wealthy” and “phase out special-interest tax breaks for the wealthy...

...Today, my guess is that the young feel their chances of getting laid are just about as good in Peoria as anywhere else, including New York-not to mention that their chances of getting AIDS are much smaller in Peoria...

...Well, what do you call members of a political party whose policies benefitted only a narrow few, who spent insane amounts of money on their military, and who bankrupted their nation...

...Well, Dr...

...Charles Peters...

...When he was arrested, the lawyer pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity...

...Taxes from the two even more than is currently contemplated...

...2) To encourage productive, long-term investment, give a capital gains tax break-but only to new investment that is held for at least a year and preferably longer (see page 49 of our July/August 1991 issue...

...To understand how Washington really works, one of the first lessons you must learn is how local law firms operate across party lines...

...That fear is based on America’s failures in the jungles of Vietnam and Soviet mistakes in the mountains of Afghanistan...

...As our article on Anita Hill last month demonstrated, this fear has not proved to be as groundless as I had hoped...

...Among the expenses charged to the state were rates of $235 to $305 per hour for lawyers’ commuting time between San Francisco and Sacramento and $145 per hour for an attorney to perform as no more than a messenger service...

...In January 199 1, Bush nominated her to be a member of the International Trade Commission (ITC...

...But another is suggested by Blaine Harden, a thoughtful foreign correspondent for The Washington Post: breakaway republics [Croatia and Slovenia], by far the richest in the Yugoslav federation, were instrumental in allowing the army to provide its primarily Serbian officers with a privileged life of free housing, vacation villas, and big pensions...

...Take this recent example: “You know, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party over there, all those Communists are trying to think of what to call themselves because they can’t call themselves Cuomo’s ability to stir my soul Communists anymore...

...A frequent winner of the contest is Drexel Burnham Lambert...

...M y fear since the beginning of the women’s movement has been that instead of challenging men to imitate the best in women, women would imitate the worst in men...

...We don’t mind,” the ad continues, “having those eagleeyed regulators peering over our shoulder and into our books...

...But there’s something else that is vital for the rest of us to do, particularly those of us who have influence over the attitudes and values of the young...

...Because C. Boyden Gray was once an associate in Cutler’s firm...

...0 ne place in which unethical behavior comes as absolutely no surprise is Wall Street...

...Anyway, I have learned from a McClatchy News Service dispatch from Sacramento that the California taxpayers have just been stuck with a $7 million bill from lawyers suing over conditions at one state penal facility...

...And through dedicated effort over many years they have managed to prevent any federal regulation...

...A Ventura lawyer got a woman who had applied to work in his office to sign a contract saying that she had been chosen “primarily on the basis of sexual appeal” and consenting “to all words, acts, sexual innuendo, sexual acts, touching, lewd behavior, etc...

...Air supremacy was decisive, making victory on the ground a piece of cake, not the bloodbath for our side that we at the Monthly feared...

...Every state has a department of insurance headed by an elected official or appointed commissioner and staffed by sharp-eyed regulators...

...Governor Pete Wilson recently signed AB 1000, entitled the Humane Poultry Slaughter Bill...

...But they can also make the firm rich while they’re in office...

...As further evidence for the Monthly’s contention that Stanford is far from the only university to cheat the government, I offer this report from The New York Times: “A federal audit has found that Yale University improperly included more than $1 million of expenses in its calculation of indirect costs for federally financed research...

...A year ago, our cover called George Bush’s adventure in the Persian Gulf a “fatal distraction...

...H a v e you ever suspected that your doctor wasn’t really eager to hear the details of your problem...

...And in Arkansas, he showed great courage in taking on the NEA in his successful effort to improve the public schools...

...Tsongas I’ve already praised...

...As we pointed out last year, the services have the same number of officers at the colonel level that they had at the end of World War 11, when the military was six times larger...

...Their story displayed sophisticated awareness that capital gains tax cuts and investment tax credits should apply only to new investment...

...The words in the second sentence from “every” through “commissioner” are true...

...3) To make up for the lost revenue, increase estate, income, and social security taxes on the of the two major beneficiaries of our war in the Gulf...

...And speaking of shady practices by those who are supposed to offer us moral leadership, consider this announcement from the editor-inchief of the Journal of Business Ethics: “It has come to my attention that about one fourth of the article by Gerald Baxter and Charles Rarick, ‘The Manager as Kierkegaard’s “Knight of Faith”: Linking Ethical Thought and Action,’ was reproduced nearly verbatim, without quotation marks, adequate attribution, or permission from Linda Klebe Trevino...

...In fact, as one revelation of chicanery follows another, the game has become “Can You Top This...

...She failed again at Justice, resigning in 1990 because “the job is just not right for me...

...All the potential client has to know is that those once-and-future employees are sure to return the firm’s phone calls...

...Harkin is too conventionally populist for me, but 1 admired his leadership of the anti-Gulf war movement at a time when most of his fellow senators were desperate to avoid taking a stand...

...We believe that the state of the American economy today shows that we were right...

...V eteran readers will recall Carol Crawford, who failed to spot the growing disorder at HUD when she was overseeing that agency for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB...

...A recently uncovered example is that just before the firm sought bankruptcy protection in 1990, it awarded $262 million in bonuses to principal staff members like Leon Black, its head of mergers and acquisitions...

...The site is Dublin, Ireland...

...A recent example is the report in The New York Times that the number of girls age 17 or younger arrested for felonies in New York City has increased 48 percent over the last four years...

...The trouble is, Yatron didn’t buy it...

...Joe Gaydos’s leased car, $99 1. For Gus Yatron’s Oldsmobile, we are paying $1,046...

...On the basis of this sterling record, she was confirmed by the Senate in November...

...Despite knowing this and also knowing of the link between asbestos and cancer, the company continued to use the Micronite filter for two more years...

...Asked if she would bring an ideological bias to her decisions, she replied, in the great tradition of Clarence Thomas on Roe v. Wade, that she couldn’t be biased because she had no views on the issues...

...A t the beginning of this column, I noted what I believed the government should do to revive the economy...

...Matthew Miller presents some ideas for job-producing investments in roads, schools, and other long-term national needs beginning on page 10...

...I was delighted to see the major news magazines speak up on these matters in their December 9 issues with a boldness that is, alas, rare in their approach to public policy...

...All the rest is outrageous falsehood...

...If you’ve ever worked in state government as I have, you know that most insurance companies oppose tough state regulation...

...Here’s another lesson in how Washington really works: Lloyd Bentsen had made a deal with Bob Packwood and the Bush administration by which the chairmanship of the ITC would be given to Janet Nuzum, a protege of Bentsen’s fellow Democrat, Dan Rostenkowski, in return for the Democrats’ “going along” with Crawford...

...Of course not...

...However, the war and the aftermath of revolt by the Kurds and Shiites was a terrible bloodbath for both the army and the people of Iraq...

...Richard Frankel of the University of Rochester Medical School says you’re right...

...interviews between internists and their patients, he found that 5 1 of the patients were interrupted by their doctors within the first 18 seconds of their explanation of what was bothering them...

...If 300,000 of the troops now stationed abroad spent their paychecks here instead of over there, economist Lacy Hunt estimates that $7 billion would be injected into our economy...

...After all, if you want to stimulate new economic activity, it does little good to reward old investment...

...What we need is a change of values that will lead the brightest of our youth to choose to become entrepreneurs, building the new plants and creating the better products that will enable us to compete successfully with Japan and employ all the people who are now out of work, These entrepreneurs-and the scientists, engineers, and investors who help them-should be the most glamorous figures in our society...

...I’m confident that this statute will become a high priority for cops in California, where, as rapes and murders went unsolved, the San Jose police found time to raid a classical music concert held in a private home because they contended the pianist was “conducting a business without a license...

...We already have enough doctors-the problem is in the distribution of their services-and more than enough lawyers...

...Albany...

...But once again her performance was rewarded...

...I have a modest suggestion: They might try calling themselves Republicans...

...R ecent stories about countries with unpaid diplomatic parking tickets contained some interesting tidbits...

...Why, for example, would Lloyd Cutler, a former senior aide to Jimmy Carter, be listened to in the Bush White House...

...One reason for the decline of New York’s appeal to the young that I realize I omitted last month is the spread of sexual freedom throughout the country...

...How do we get the economy moving without busting the budget...

...Our only regret about our opposition to the war is that we overemphasized the danger of a ground war...

...I smoked Kents from 1954 through 1956...

...An embargo...

...Air supremacy could not have brought victory in either place...

...And by his valor in Vietnam, he has won the right to stand up to the military in a way that most people who lack military credentials fear to do...

...That’s enough to buy the car in two years...

...Newsweek’s David Hackworth also urges that we consolidate the services into one united military“one paymaster would pay them, one quartermaster would fit them out”-reduce the “overrated and overpaid” Reserves and National Guard, then bring home the ground combat forces stationed in Europe...

...Another factor called to my attention by my colleague, Christopher Georges, who as a certifiable twentysomething speaks with considerably more authority than I can claim, is that for people reared on cable television, New York’s music, dance, and drama seem to offer little that is not available on the tube back home...

...As Nicholas Lemann notes in this issue, more than half the graduates of our best colleges are going into la- v and medicine, where they are not needed...

...The other top offenders that fascinated me are Somalia, number 2, and Gabon, number l h o u n t r i e s so small Did you know that 126 members of the House lease cars at taxpayer expense...

...s p e a k i n g of my brethren at the bar-yes, dear reader, I was once one of them-guess where the trial lawyers’ section of the New York State Bar Association is holding its annual spring meeting...

...He is also the most engaging personally...

...Three of the top twelve offenders were Israel and Egypt, the two largest recipients of our foreign aid, and Saudi Arabia, one that we have to wonder how they could collect so many unpaid tickets...

...You can laugh, as I do, but we both should remember that the tax deductibility of these junkets means that we’re stuck with a large share of the bill...

...We’re not saying I’m crazy now,” he told the Los Angeles Times, he proceeded to contend that he should still be permitted to practice law...

...The Seattle Times reported on October 8 that “last Friday, 12 undercover officers spent two and a half hours buying table dances at the Deja Vu Showgirls strip club, eventually citing 30 dancers at the club for alleged ‘dirty dancing...