For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. This claim is made with great regularity whenever the AMA lobbies in Washington against national health insurance, capping Medicare payments to doctors or anything else that might put a dent in doctors' income. The AMA always claims that its sole concern is for the patient - the notion of lucre never crosses its collective mind. The city of Boerne, Texas, and local Roman Catholics have reached an agreement on the conflict that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The local sanctuary will be enlarged, as the church wished, without violation of the city's historic preservation ordinance, as the city wished.
Silly thing swoons away at the slightest provocation.
Rep. Dan Burton, the Inspector Clouseau of campaign-finance investigators, is now complaining because the State Department finally tracked down Charlie Trie for him in China but Trie got away before Burton could phone him, which of course would have cleared up everything. Burton contends that this is further evidence of a White House cover-up. Just what we need. More investigations of the sex lives of anybody and everybody. I recommend Lapham's extended grousing on the subject.