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...sympathetic Administration in power isn't even necessary. When their agenda bogs down, well-connected tribes can go to friends in Congress, skirting the BIA and the regulatory process altogether. Congress recognized the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Indiana and Michigan in 1994. With help from a financial backer, Lyle Berman's Lakes Entertainment Inc., the tribe is on the verge of building a casino about 70 miles east of Chicago, in New Buffalo, Mich. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Virginia Republicans George Allen and John Warner have introduced a package deal for six Virginia tribes--despite the opposition...
...York City with a group of high-rolling Democrats and told them he was seriously considering a run for the White House, sources tell TIME. Lunching with about 15 Democratic donors and fund raisers at the Park Avenue offices of venture capitalist Alan Patricof, a strong Gore backer in '00 who is neutral so far for '04, Clark laid out his credentials and his differences with George W. Bush. A Rhodes scholar who fought in Vietnam and served as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe from 1997 to 2000, Clark said the U.S. should finish routing al-Qaeda before taking...
...scourge of Islamic terrorism results largely from a failure to recognize this limitation. I am not equating Gomes’ views with the thinking that has fueled terrorist atrocities in America, Israel, the Philippines, Bali and, most recently, Moscow. But this thinking begins by claiming God as a political backer, an error which Gomes commits with his easy assumption that a war in Iraq would run afoul of the things the Lord delights in: “Love, justice, and righteousness...
Gore's blast and Daschle's tirade did hearten liberal Democratic donors--some of whom have begun threatening to withhold contributions unless the party stands up to Bush on Iraq. Singer Barbra Streisand's political adviser faxed a "confidential memo" to House minority leader Dick Gephardt, a strong backer of military action, urging Democrats "to get off the defensive." The memo pointedly noted that Streisand had delegated an intermediary to write it--because the pop diva was busy rehearsing for a concert in Los Angeles that was expected to raise $4 million for House Democrats...
...military refused to flip as they had during EDSA II. That may have saved her presidency, and quite possibly her life, but it further cemented a political role for the military?no small danger in a country where talk of a coup is always in the air. Her key backer, General Angelo Reyes, the army's Chief of Staff, was installed as Arroyo's Defense Secretary. And though she insists the military is "truly professional, not political," she's been careful not to cross them. With the U.S. opening a second front, in Mindanao, in its war on terrorism...