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...this weekend. The 2004 presidential shopping season is under way--with the rich Democrats who write big campaign checks browsing for a candidate to support--and Gore may be a too familiar face in a crowded field. In 2000 he had the party's nomination and its fat-cat donors all to himself--but blew the race. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday the big-money players will be wooed at two competing events: Gore's "donor retreat" at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn., and North Carolina Senator John Edwards' gathering of givers on St. Simmons Island, Georgia. And Edwards...
...front runner--a year before anyone in Iowa had a chance to caucus. In 2004 money could matter more than ever because the primaries will be concentrated at the beginning of the election calendar, forcing candidates to campaign nationwide from the start. And the nominee will need a bigger donor base, because the new campaign-finance law forbids parties from accepting unregulated "soft money" contributions. So the half a dozen or so Democrats considering a run for the White House have decided it's none too soon to begin wooing the money...
Gore's Memphis retreat is expected to draw a decent crowd. While he will feature congressional Democrats as speakers, he did not invite Lieberman, who has said he will not run if Gore does (but is busily building his donor network in case Gore doesn't). Edwards' retreat will include a good-size contingent of trial lawyers--he used to be one himself--who also account for 86% of the money his pac has raised...
...first child in the U.S. born from her mother's frozen egg. While thousands of children had already been produced from frozen embryos, only one other child in the U.S. had been born from the far more delicate frozen egg, and that egg had come from a donor...
...selling of shrouds and the influx of tourists has spawned a new school of opportunists. Papu, a self-appointed guide to the Hindu rituals of death, walks visitors through the ceremony, then earnestly describes the karmic benefits of giving $10 to a widow with no means. What a donor gains from Papu taking a cut is not explained...