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...forces. But the Lebanese Army, whose forces in the south have traditionally been on good terms with Hizballah, and whose fighting forces are almost half Shi'ite, is unlikely to try and forcibly disarm Hizballah. France - which is slated to lead the U.N. force and be its major troop-contributor with some 5,000 men - has said the same thing...
...personal stake in Lenny Bruce for nearly a half-century. I first heard about him in 1959 from the cartoonist Arnold Roth, who was a crucial contributor to the Harvey Kurtzman magazine Humbug, and who lived in Philadelphia, as I did. With a kindness that I think back on with gratitude and bafflement, he befriended this gauche but eager 14-year-old and, in the genial tutorial that was our conversations, recommended that I listen to Lenny's albums...
...what did Pickens, a major Republican contributor, do? He picked up the phone and called his representative, Republican Joe Barton of Texas, and alerted him to the issue - only to find out that a number of old buddies were against banning the slaughter, including the Texas Southwest Cattlemen's Association, the Texas A&M Extension Service and former Democratic Congressman Charlie Stenholm, who was hired as a lobbyist by slaughter proponents. "Somebody is putting money into this for a lobbyist to be on it," says Pickens. He warned Barton that people were getting worked up over the issue. "I told...
...DeLay had a profile among contributor Democrats that causes them to be more generous than they are going to be with a candidate who isn't as high profile," longtime Texas Democratic political analyst Dan McClung said in court. DeLay didn't just bring in money, McClung added, but also support from out-of-state Democratic interest groups and resources from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
...Lane, who hasn't read NeW's constitution, bases her opinion on Hoff Sommer's lecture and campus rumor. "Someone told me that Lynn Cheney is a major contributor of theirs," she says. Such hearsay, however, is wrong. "I wish Lynn Cheney was a major contributor of NeW!" Agness muses...