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As of last Wednesday, [Emily] Duffy, 43, a self-described gender-issue artist and part-time restaurant hostess, had 818 bras in her ball, another couple hundred on hand and as many as 137 arriving daily from friends and strangers who have heard about her project. By the time she unveils the BraBall on Thursday, at its world premiere, she expects to have collected 1,500 bras, which will form a 3-foot diameter globe of underwear she'll have to transport by U-Haul to ProArts Gallery in Oakland.
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Hard to see how the influence of campaign contributions on politics could get clearer than the credit card industry's purchase of a harsher bankruptcy law, industry's purchase of the repeal of rules to prevent repetitive stress injuries and High George Dubya's 180 on CO2. As Joseph Welch once said to Sen. Joe McCarthy,"Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
That McCain-Feingold is an imperfect instrument is beyond argument. It's not as though we are accustomed to flawless legislation from Congress. The truth is, unless we start by cleaning up the soft money in politics, we'll never get anything more done.
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George II, also known by the Supreme Court as the "President," has asked us all to help make this a more compassionate nation. Some leading Democrats have already been pitching in--showing compassion to John Ashcroft, for example. Since many Americans have not yet gotten the hang of "compassionate conservatism," here are a few simple suggestions for things that you, as a plain, ordinary, sub-billionaire citizen, can do, right now, to end the tragic compassion deficit we are left with after eight years of Democratic rule.
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