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...Administrations, the tribe and its investors paid $525,000 to Ronald Kaufman--a well-connected Republican lobbyist, White House political director for the first President Bush and a brother-in-law of current White House chief of staff Andrew Card--to press their case. The BIA's recognition came amid widespread opposition by Connecticut politicians and community groups and questions about the tribe's authenticity...
...INDICATORS Batteries Weren't Included Game Group, the U.K.'s largest computer-games retailer, announced a profits warning amid "disappointing" Christmas sales. This put a chill on all retail stocks, with the exception of the coal-in-the-stocking sector...
...Amid a running debate on homophobia at Harvard, Mather House tutors sponsored an open dinner meeting last night aimed at sending “a message of welcoming” to sexual minorities on campus...
...which to build the casino was even easier. Sam Katz, a Philadelphia financier who has arranged multimillion-dollar financing packages for sports stadiums from Denver to Miami, has become the Lyttons' guardian angel. Katz and his partners found and bought a 10-acre parcel of land for a casino amid the graying stores and modest homes of San Pablo on the East Bay, a 25-minute drive from San Francisco. You might call it a "gaming reservation" because the Lyttons do not intend to live there. Katz has acquired a second piece of property--near Windsor, 60 miles away...
...economic team will face high expectations for quick progress amid a contentious political climate. "If they don't have a good plan, it doesn't matter which team they've got," said outgoing Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. With deficits returning, the new Treasury Secretary's confirmation hearings are certain to become a forum for Bush's critics, who say he has tossed aside fiscal discipline to give handouts to the wealthy. Administration officials scoff. Says a senior aide: "Show me somewhere in history where someone has paid a political price for deficits." That's exactly the kind of talk...