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...encouraging people to call the campaign, because that will force them to come up with some answers," said Mike Smith, a Denver gay activist who has known Cheney for three years. But coming up with those answers would be interpreted as putting Mary's relationship on an equal footing with her sister's. That would be a major departure for a party that has traditionally supported the right of employers to fire gay people...
...want to throw light on the things that no one will be talking about in the other conventions--and have a genuine debate, not an infomercial," Huffington says. She and her co-conveners--who include Scott Harshbarger of Common Cause and antipoverty activist Jim Wallis--have whittled their agenda down to three items. One day will be devoted to campaign-finance reform, the next to the growing income gap between rich and poor, and the third to "reforming"--read liberalizing--the nation's drug laws...
Even Steven Wong, the anti-snakeheads activist who has worked with the Coast Guard interviewing survivors of smuggling trips, says Ping was never like the other snakeheads. "I have no doubt she is a good person," he says. "The Fujianese don't see human smuggling as a crime. They see it as a necessary service. When the gangs took over, Sister Ping argued that those who were coming had paid money and should be treated fairly, as clients, not prisoners." He says he once interviewed her and she claimed she only helped her relatives come to the U.S. "I have...
That's one reason Drayton in 1980 founded Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (named for a benevolent Indian Emperor from the 3rd century B.C.). Its approach grew out of Drayton's background as a student activist at Harvard, traveler through India and consultant for nearly a decade for McKinsey & Co. Ashoka started by raising "seed capital" mostly from small donors, including three family foundations belonging to Bill Golden, Mark Lipkin and John Klingenstein. Drayton was named a MacArthur fellow from 1984 to 1989, which gave him more time and money to develop Ashoka. By 1991 its budget was $2.2 million...
...portobello-mushroom sandwich. "That means everything from getting bigger to knowing when to wear a suit." Indeed, the fringe party has abandoned its own fringe. Nader is running virtually unopposed. His Green opponents--Jello Biafra, formerly of the punk band Dead Kennedys, and Stephen Gaskin, a pro-marijuana activist--have minuscule support...