(FORTUNE Magazine) – --JAMES A. THURBER, 49, a political science professor at American University, on why the Clinton Administration will include lobbyists in spite of its campaign rhetoric: ''You don't want a government made up of clerics and academics. It's impossible to get someone who knows government and is well connected but who doesn't have some connection to previous clients.''

-- RITA DAPKUS, 31, a Lithuanian American who recently moved from Chicago to Lithuania, on why she opened her own pizza restaurant in Vilnius: ''I got into this more out of anger than anything. People here claimed to sell pizza, and it would actually be a bun with a piece of sausage thrown on it.''