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...plan to fix the problems of campaign financing [NATION, July 14], top G.O.P. fund raiser Wayne Berman omitted the most urgently needed reform: a ban on all paid political advertising, which would remove the burden on both political parties of coping with skyrocketing advertising costs. Let the networks, at their own discretion, provide free time for the important debates. An end to advertising would halt the need for soft and hard money and the obscene kind of influence peddling it engenders. And it would be a blessing to America's TV audience, sickened by nauseating political ads. GENE GRAMM...
This year's Marathon is not only a time for personal reflection and Dionysian pleasure, but also for historical perspective. There is particular significance to running this year's marathon as women. We will follow in the literal footsteps of women like Kathrine Switzer, fellow Cantabridgian Sara Mae Berman and Joan Benoit who were among the first women to run Boston's course. While Nina Kuscsik of Huntington, N.Y. won the first official women's marathon in 1972, Switzer, Berman and Benoit stand out as three female pioneers. In 1967, Switzer, a Syracuse University student, applied for a race...
...then there's the concern about what Gore might be able to do if a donor refused. "Getting a call from Al Gore and getting a call from me are two completely different things," says Wayne Berman, who last year raised more soft money than any other Republican financier. "If I ask a guy for $100,000, the donor can tell me to go jump in the lake. When Al Gore does it, the donor can't say that, and he has to wonder, Does he have my privates in his hand? Now most people in Washington know that...
...TIME last week that the corporation employed Hubbell briefly as a consultant in the fall of 1994. Starr issued a subpoena last month to Time Warner, asking for the records of Hubbell's employment. The company hired Hubbell after one of its outside lobbyists, longtime Democratic consultant Michael Berman, approached Hubbell about doing some legal work in the antitrust area. According to Berman, Hubbell was game, and so Berman then mentioned the idea to Tim Boggs, Time Warner's Washington representative. Not long afterward, Hubbell himself called Boggs and offered his legal services directly. Peter Haje, Time Warner's executive...
...That Berman helped broker the Time Warner arrangement shortens the link between the White House and Hubbell's campaign to find work. Berman is in the first circle of advisers to the First Lady and talks regularly with Clinton's close friend and aide Bruce Lindsey. In an interview last week, Berman said the idea for hooking Hubbell up with Boggs was his alone; no one at the White House, he said, suggested or even knew of the deal. "Webb was looking for work," he explained. "I was a friend of Webb's. So I asked Webb...