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...States. But the state of Nevada is about to launch a $5 million media campaign designed to block the nuclear garbage dump. The state's powerful U.S. Senator, Democrat Harry Reid, has recruited two former White House chiefs of staff--John Podesta, who served under Bill Clinton, and Kenneth Duberstein, of the Reagan White House, to lobby Congress. Show-biz stars like Christie Brinkley and Wayne Newton will also speak out. Most dramatically, the campaign plans to send trucks with mock nuclear casks into cities around the country, where they will get stuck in traffic to highlight the problems with...
...favor of embryonic stem-cell research. Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that Nancy Reagan, wife of the conservative movement's central icon, has sent word to the White House that she backs the research. According to those familiar with the meetings, former Reagan aides Kenneth Duberstein and Michael Deaver delivered this message to House Speaker Denny Hastert and Senate Republican leader Trent Lott: "This would mean an awful lot to Nancy, especially for a cure for Alzheimer's, even if it's not for the President, but for future generations." Lott said he was moved by the appeal...
When he's not traveling the world for Citigroup or fly casting for bonefish in the Bahamas, Rubin, 62, is working at a new way of promoting freer trade. Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Rubin and former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein will lead a bipartisan discussion of how to build a centrist agenda for expanding global trade--and how market-opening treaties might accommodate or neutralize conflicting interest groups...
...Later, Duberstein as sharply questioned by Representative-elect Susan Davis (D-Calif.). What gestures could the Republicans make to assuage Democratic concerns that their own voices would be drowned...
Both Hellmann and Duberstein found that unlikely. "Any big issue that the other party wants to be a bellwether issue will make it to the floor and there'll be a debate," Hellmann said...