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Long before she became the focus of an FBI investigation into the mysterious mailing of GEORGE W. BUSH's confidential debate materials, YVETTE LOZANO knew her job working for the Bush campaign might raise a few eyebrows. "It's kind of weird," she told an acquaintance as she drove down a street in Austin, Texas, a few months ago, "because we're all Democrats." For that reason and others, Lozano, an assistant to MARK MCKINNON, Bush's chief media adviser, was under a cloud of suspicion last week in a scandal that has become a major distraction for the Bush...
...Like deals with the devil, politicians cannot easily extricate themselves from the vicious web of campaign contributions that simultaneously supports and constrains their political careers. When Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) tried, special interests drove the Straight Talk Express right off stage. And those completely outside the system, like Ralph Nader, struggle to survive, barely able to afford the $80,000 it takes to rent the FleetCenter, itself the result of public subsidy and private ownership. It was FleetBank, after all, which put up $100,000 to sponsor the presidential debate Nader can't afford...
...Tigers drove down the field, and running back Kyle Brandt smashed it in from the 1-yard line for six points. Northrop then connected on the extra point to send the game into overtime. For his efforts Northrop was named the Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week...
...them. For starters, his antics have made Lebed something of a hero in his hometown of Cedar Grove. "I'm proud of my son," quickly proclaimed his father Gregory Lebed, a railroad worker for Amtrak who drove up to his house last week in a forest-green Mercedes suv. Proud? Support you can understand. But mass fraud seems a strange accomplishment to crow about...
Take Jim Diskin, 43, a telecommunications consultant who drove out from Pittsburgh one night to sneak a peek. He aimed his Ford Escort under an arch of flashing red lights and into the "Nude Drive-Thru Lane," stopping at a booth where a sign says the show is $5 a minute. Diskin handed over a twenty and was waved ahead to a 6-ft. window under a carport. "I love America," he said, and that was before a curtain opened and a 21-year-old flower named Daisy stood behind the glass in a blue-sequined miniskirt. One minute into...