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...with my coaching it would all work out all right. It was too late to save the backwards states down south or out west, but the Midwest would prove it could make the difference. Even my father, a self-named “independent” but originally Bush backer, was changing his vote—as a veteran he couldn’t stomach what President Bush did with the war in Iraq...
...public money the way of independent schools as one-off grants for new labs and libraries; in the 1970s Latham's mentor, Gough Whitlam, courting the Catholic vote, introduced recurrent funding to independent schools based on need. Without fanfare, the Howard government since 1996 has become an increasingly generous backer of private education, with a funding formula that pivots on the socioeconomic status of the students' district of residence and takes no account of a school's facilities or fees. Still, when funding from all levels of government is tallied, private school students drain between...
...October 2002, Kushner made a single donation of $1 million to the Democratic Party. Kushner is also the biggest financial backer of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey, who was only a mayor when Kushner began writing him checks in the '90s. "The amount of money he raised is unusual for one person," says Ingrid Reed of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. "He's not a household word...but he was a respected, well-known figure among the elite...
...days are really numbered." HOWARD STERN, controversial radio talk-show host, on air, speaking of the resignation of Viacom president (and Stern backer) Mel Karmazin...
...established, allowing the trial to resume. Steps Toward Justice SIERRA LEONE The U.N.-backed trial of 13 suspects indicted for war crimes committed during the 1991-2002 civil war opened in the capital, Freetown. Progovernment militia leaders were first to stand accused of atrocities, with rebels - including alleged backer Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia who is currently in exile in Nigeria - scheduled to follow. The opening marks the first time an international war-crimes tribunal has convened in the country where the war took place. Some 50,000 people died during Sierra Leone's conflict. City Under Siege...