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...Harvard women's volleyball team discovered this weekend that strong starts don't always equal strong finishes...
Roach, who was taken from his family because he had a white grandfather, knows what they went through. His third set of foster parents treated him well, as an equal to their own three children. But his life was shattered when Roach, 14, received a letter from his sister Myrtle, who had tracked him down through welfare agencies. Their mother, supposedly dead, had passed away the previous week. Furious that he'd been lied to his whole life, Roach ran away from home and spent the next 14 years drinking, sleeping in parks, playing the guitar to earn enough...
...they were fighting a formidable opponent. Over the past several years, the gambling industry and its trade association, the American Gaming Association, have emerged as a major influence group in Washington, doling out large campaign contributions and wining and dining lawmakers. Like many other special interests, they are equal-opportunity givers, as attested to by a sampling of contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission. In 1996, Sheldon Adelson, whose Las Vegas Sands Inc. owns the new Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, contributed $100,000 to the Republican National State Election Committee...
Almost by definition, it is impossible to know how much illicit cash is siphoned into havens far from the eyes of legal authorities. The U.S. stockbroking giant Merrill Lynch estimated in 1998 that more than $5 trillion, equal to a third of the savings of wealthy people worldwide, was held in offshore accounts. While only a small percentage of that is laundered cash, it's still a huge...
...than $3 million more in available "hard" funds than Clinton (the only type of money the campaigns are permitted to use for ads), and her aides say they expect the gap to broaden over the remaining weeks. The disparity means Lazio can afford to push advertising campaigns without fearing equal retaliation from Clinton. And she faces other looming roadblocks. According to the New York Times, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) sounded a mutinous chord this weekend, suggesting that while they respected the intent of the agreement, they weren't at all sure they were willing...