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...Toback convinced Blockbuster to delay the video release to October 2002. Then he went on what he calls a “guerilla distribution tour...
...just as intense. In 2000, G.O.P. candidates handily outraised Democrats and flooded the airwaves with more ads, but many saw their leads evaporate on Election Day when union workers swarmed door to door to get out the Democratic vote. During a party retreat in West Virginia last January, DeLay handed out packets marked stomp, for Strategic Taskforce to Organize and Mobilize People. It outlines a campaign to spend millions of dollars busing volunteers from safe congressional districts to ones where Republicans face a fight...
Because Pelosi and DeLay represent the hard-core loyalists in their party, they can be polarizing figures. "You can't take Pelosi to every district, and you can't take DeLay to every district," admits Davis. Both have been called vindictive. Pelosi gave $10,000 to the primary opponent of the powerful Democratic Congressman John Dingell, who backed Hoyer in the race for whip. "That was dumb," says a senior House Democratic aide. DeLay has lately tried to tone down his bulldog image. At the party's January retreat, he staged a comedy skit, putting on a gray...
...political scientist in contact with the regime. "He knows it would be very difficult for Bush to retreat from his declared intent." There are signs Saddam is bracing for attack: beefing up his personal security, bucking up the ruling Baath Party and repositioning his military while playing at diplomatic delay with the U.N. He knows the issue for him is existential...
...rejected him previously. There was only one catch: Hien had to travel with his new "family," four Vietnamese whom he believes had paid the woman, Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuong, up to $20,000 to secure them visas to the U.S., piggybacking on Hien. When he wanted to delay his planned departure because of his real brother's death, he says Phuong threatened him, saying she had powerful friends and would have him maimed if he wouldn't do as she said...