An excerpt: "The Senate has the practice of debating nothing on the first day it is proposed to them, but it is put off for a full meeting of their body. This is to prevent someone from babbling the first thing that comes into his head, and then from a perverse and unnatural fear of seeming to have been shortsighted in the beginning, thinking up arguments to defend his plan rather than consulting the interest of the state, ready to damage the public good rather than his own reputation. Such a man ought to have seen to it right from the first that he spoke with more deliberation than haste."
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Nov. 26 answer: The Stand by Stephen King. Answer to the third question: The superflu's nickname is Captain Trips. The winners are William Graham and Mark Kimball.