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...that point the home team was at the bottom of the lobbying league. California's Silicon Valley remains home to the high-tech industry's loudest political megaphone, TechNet. Based in Palo Alto, it gives campaign donations in roughly equal proportions to Republicans and Democrats and serves as a clearinghouse for information and policy proscriptions about the new economy. But Chuck Manatt's pleading and Mark Bisnow's bus tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last...
...risky decision to play "Mambo No. 5" - a song about womanizing - in the convention hall to keep up delegates' enthusiasm between speeches. "Obviously we're not using the original lyric," says Smith, who plans to rewrite the song with names of states instead of names of women. For Smith, equal parts entertainer and Democrat, that's the trick: Taking the same old tune, changing the words and hoping that it catches...
CHENEY In Congress he voted against the Equal Rights Amendment, and he opposed sanctions against South Africa, using federal funds to pay for busing and strengthening fair-housing laws...
These tendencies are legacies of segregation and the denial of equal educational opportunities, McWhorter says. But today such attitudes have taken on a life of their own, and their destructive effects are worsened by racial preferences, which allow "black people [to] get the very best things doing less of a job than everybody else." Because black students' grades and scores on standardized tests were the lowest of any group at Berkeley, McWhorter says, many whites and Asian Americans figured that "blacks are just plain dumb...
...encouraging people to call the campaign, because that will force them to come up with some answers," said Mike Smith, a Denver gay activist who has known Cheney for three years. But coming up with those answers would be interpreted as putting Mary's relationship on an equal footing with her sister's. That would be a major departure for a party that has traditionally supported the right of employers to fire gay people...