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...staffers in virtually every state and hinted that he could raise perhaps $500 million for the fall campaign. Al Gore was brought on board in the key battleground state of Michigan (just as John Edwards had been a few weeks before). Hillary Clinton will even join him for a brief unity tour this week. Normally, this would be called a strong second...
...number two spot. And what good did that serve at the very moment the campaign was trying to woo Clinton's donors, court her ardent supporters and win over the candidate herself? "Just stupid," said a top Clinton fundraiser this week. Clinton and Obama will go on their brief unity tour this week, but the merger deal will not close now until the convention, a source close to both Clintons reported this week...
Technically, the UNHCR's brief doesn't extend to economic migrants, whether South Asians in the Gulf, Mexicans in the U.S., or Africans in Europe. But the distinction between an illegal job seeker and a person seeking sanctuary from war and repression may not be one governments are willing to make, given that so many countries are already skittish over immigration. Last year alone, 20,000 people arrived in Italy by sea, most of them on rickety vessels from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa; about half that number will seek asylum in the E.U. With anti-immigrant sentiment...
...Schwartz, also a creator of the original antismoking campaigns, it is too brief a summary of his life's work. He made time for important causes, balancing blockbuster campaigns for Coca-Cola with public-service ads for AIDS awareness and fire safety. Finally, he was a skilled audio engineer whose diverse recordings are now in the Library of Congress. He displayed an unparalleled ability to home in on the sounds that best tell a story. As his son Anton remembers, "He was fond of saying that people who work in radio have the great fortune that humans do not have...
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