Word: campaigning
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...spark that started what came to be called the collegiate "fish wars" of our grandparent's generation occurred right in Boston. It was 60 years ago, March 3, 1939, when the very first goldfish was gulped by Lothrop Withington Jr. in a campaign publicity stunt at Boston College. A candidate for freshman class president, Withington staged the swallowing to attract attention, after his friends gave him the idea with a $10 bet. Hungry for votes, anxious to collect his money, and most probably motivated by a prescient sense of history, the enterprising student invited Boston journalists to the event. Company...
Then, on Oct. 5, Massachusetts Citizens For Life objected that Marshall had served on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a group that performs abortions. They initiated a campaign to telephone councilors asking them to vote against...
...course, we applaud Harvard's actions on this...and see no reason they can't apply the same compassionate logic to their other employees," wrote Aron R. Fischer '99-'00, a campaign organizer, in an e-mail message...
Gunther, meanwhile, is enjoying an incredible rookie campaign. She leads the Ivy League with an amazing 0.44 goals-against average. Gunther's .902 save percentage is also tops in the league...
...other national leader," the resolution shoved through by Sweeney read, "Al Gore has used the power of his office to defend the freedom of workers to choose a union, free from interference by their employers." For Gore, who?ll get a stump-thumping grassroots organization that his excitement-deprived campaign sorely needs ?- and one that has $40 million to spend ?- the endorsement couldn?t have come at a better time. As in now. "Bill Bradley wasn?t really counting on getting the union vote anyway, but he was pushing hard for a delay," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan...