Word: arizona
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...sides agreed to increase the amount of hard money individuals could give candidates and parties, and that compromise paved the way for the historic vote to ban the unlimited soft-money donations that parties could collect from corporations, unions and the wealthy. By the end of the week the Arizona Senator, his sidekick, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and their merry band of china breakers actually had victory in sight--a victory that could lead to the most dramatic campaign-finance overhaul since the post-Watergate reforms of 1974. McCain-Feingold's reforms are so sweeping, in fact, that...
...turns out I did. “That crazy kid” was my friend Mike Manley from Tempe, Arizona. Though Mike and I went to different high schools, we met on the local speech and debate circuit, and we started bumping into each other everywhere we went. Mike and I volunteered together at the city museum, served on youth commissions together, talked on the phone and crank-called random Tempeans together. These experiences forged a friendship I valued highly during a period of my life when good friends were hard to find...
...school, Mike was accepted to MIT and chose there to enroll there the following year, just as I was about to enter Harvard. The summer before we left for Cambridge, Mike and I met several times to talk about what it would be like to leave our homes in Arizona for the gray and distant lands of Harvard and MIT. We swore to stay in touch and help each other handle the pretentious snobs we were sure we’d find...
That lesson occurred after a questionable foul call on Arizona late in the first half. That's when the supposedly neutral Minneapolis crowd spontaneously burst into a chorus of boos. The fans were railing against far more than just that one call. They finally began to express their resentment at a perception that referees have been unfairly favoring Duke all year, particularly in last Saturday's game against Maryland...
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN Not since New Hampshire has Arizona's maverick reformer enjoyed the spotlight so much...