Word: beckers
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WASHINGTON: In the campaign finance hearings' first long look at the other side of the aisle, eager Democrats spent the day grilling Benton Becker, lawyer for Hong Kong real estate developer Ambrous Tung Young. Becker readily described how erstwhile GOP think tank The National Policy Forum was used to funnel campaign donations from Hong Kong real estate developer Young and other foreign nationals to state GOP organizations. Becker maintained today that the RNC was well aware at the time that the money originated from a foreign company, making Young's donations illegal under US law. (The money was finally returned...
...hope of answers to come. But for the hundreds of mourners who gathered at St. Patrick's Cathedral for a memorial mass remembering the TWA victims, finding answers was less important than finding healing. "It seems like such a long time since I've had a hug," sighed Aurelie Becker of St. Petersburg, Florida, wearing a blouse that featured a photo of her smiling, Paris-bound teen-age daughter, Michele. FBI Director Louis Freeh, Roman Catholic Cardinal John O'Connor and New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani joined the families at the service. "I'll never forget the love...
WIMBLEDON: Boris Becker, who won his first Wimbledon championship in 1985 at the age of 17 and dominated the grass at the All England Club for a decade after, will not play there again. After losing to Pete Sampras in the quarterfinal Thursday, Becker said he was through. Although he won the event three times and finished second another four in the past 14 years, Becker felt that age 31 he could no longer play at a high enough level to win. "I feel very relieved," he said afterwards. "I feel I've come to the end of the road...
...laudable action, a more talk and the laudable action, a more troubling political issue seems to be transpiring. While the 5,000 rallyers listened to President Clinton, several thousand more people gathered at another rally a number of miles away--this one to protest. According to Brian Becker, a coordinator of the National People's Campaign that is sponsoring a counter-conference to the Summit, "the [President's] summit is all hoopla and propaganda." Becker and the thousands that joined him claim that the President's conference and the campaign for which it is a kick-off are a paltry...
...Becker implicated the media in prizing thinness and creating what she termed the "normalization of an extreme." This has distorted "what is normal and what is attainable," she said...