Word: california
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Last week alone, a drive at the University of California at Berkeley registered nearly 1,000 minority donors...
...people, but the core of her experience has been and will be the same as that of thousands of other college freshmen. Chelsea spent the last few weeks vacationing before packing up the part of her life that would fit into brown boxes. The fact that she flew to California in Air Force One simply makes her arrival unusual, but like many of the other 1,649 first-years who arrived at Stanford this week, dinner with mom and/or dad will be a special occasion instead of an evening ritual...
...alter ego, the smooth operator within Gore's tight-knit inner circle. His name turns up everywhere; he was even on Gore's 1989 trip to Taiwan that was led by overzealous fund raiser John Huang and included a stop at the headquarters of the Buddhist sect whose Southern California temple was host to Gore for his notorious "donor-maintenance" event in April...
...champagne corked because the news is bad news for them too: a case that had been edging toward a settlement for months is now off the rails and careering toward a trial. The lawyers quit because Jones, with the encouragement of her influential "friend and adviser," a glamorous California conservative commentator named Susan Carpenter-McMillan, rejected an apparent offer of $700,000 and a vaguely worded statement from Clinton that Jones did nothing improper. While it's not clear at all that Jones can win, the President has even more to lose, in standing and reputation, if the case proceeds...
...deal at hand--the full $700,000 she'd originally asked for, plus a statement of regret from Clinton about any harm to her reputation--was the best she could do and strongly urged her to take it. But Jones, now married with two young children and living in California, has long said she was in this fight to win an apology, not a payoff. And with Carpenter-McMillan's backing, she rejected her lawyers' advice. The attorneys promptly filed, and were granted, a motion to dump the case. Says Carpenter-McMillan: "This case was never about money...