Word: elections
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...onetime press secretary for congressional leader Tom DeLay who ran his own public relations firm, came through, attacking the tribe's political opponents, blitzing the state with television ads and tapping a grassroots operation of Christian conservatives to help stop any rival casinos. And by the next year, with elections rolling around, Abramoff had the Coushattas dreaming even bigger. "You can control Louisiana," Worfel recalls Abramoff telling the tribal leaders. "You could help elect Senators and Representatives and attorney generals in the state of Louisiana, and then they're going to remember that the Coushattas helped them. And they know...
More than two-thirds of Americans received a tax refund last year, and that return averaged $2,200. To get your refund back as quickly as possible, consider filing your taxes electronically, and then elect to have the refund deposited directly into your account. You'll have your money in 10 days to two weeks rather than six to eight weeks if you file by snail mail...
...SERIOUS I MEANT POLITICS, THE GOVERNMENT. The Federal Government? I don't think anyone outside Washington thinks of it as serious. The humor in government?especially the way we elect Presidents?is the mother lode. When you're watching a man flip pancakes in New Hampshire while answering questions about Social Security reform, you're watching a funny way to choose the leader of the free world...
...first season’s 13. Saturday’s season premiere will be indicative of the risks the show is willing to take. According to the show’s Executive Director, Isaac H. Ravishankara ’07, the episode will feature Undergraduate Council President-Elect John S. Haddock ’07 and defeated rival John F. Voith ’07 “in a scene together,” an appearance by the entirety of a capella singing group the Harvard Callbacks, cameos from the Radcliffe Rugby Team, and a meticulously-filmed sequence where...
Christopher L. Corcoran ’07, the president-elect of the IOP’s Student Advisory Committee, praised the diversity of the fellows, noting that there were three women among the six fellows. He said he hopes having prominent female political figures as fellows will encourage women on campus to go into public service...