Captions : That’s the very essence of pork barrelism, when you give a huge lump sum to a person and say, ‘Well, tell us what you want it for, but you are free to decide where to spend it on.’ Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Captions : I first read Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of ‘Mockingbird.’ Margaret Stohl